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I am all for the short and merry life.

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Taste is the feminine of genius.

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Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thithe...

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Edward FitzGerald (poet)

Poet

Born: 1809-03-31

Died: 1883-06-14

Edward Marlborough FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883), born Edward Marlborough Purcell, was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.More