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• The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• There is one art of which man should be master -- the art of reflection.
  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne
• Is Death that woman's mate? /Her/ lips were red, /her/ looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold
  Her skin was white as leprosy, The Night-Mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold....
• A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Of all the blessedness of sleep. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), _The Knight's Tomb_
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. French Proverb