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Advice, like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Advice, like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 315 · printed citation: S. T. Coleridge. · compiler notes excluded
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