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Few Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their…
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity…
- Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle…
- There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one…
- I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep…
- There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural,…
- In going under the water I had been obliged to let go my hold upon the rope; and finding that I was completely beneath the…
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