“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

English Romantic poet · 1792 – 1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet, author of Ozymandias, Adonais and Prometheus Unbound, and a leading voice of Romanticism.

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When you have the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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