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Brightness Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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