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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

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The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

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And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

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He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

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Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

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I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

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I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

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I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 13th, 1793

Died: May 20th, 1864

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