Quote#Friendship
Metaphisics is a word that you, my dear Sir! are no great friend to /…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to William Sotheby (13 July 1802).
English (original)
Metaphisics is a word that you, my dear Sir! are no great friend to / but yet you will agree, that a great Poet must be, implicitè if not explicitè, a profound Metaphysician.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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