‘ How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits
Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains!
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits
If any man obtain that which he merits
Or any merit that which he obtains.’
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THE GOOD, GREAT MAN · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Poetry Cove