“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Reflections_Retirement.html", l. 43 (1795)

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