Epigram: When Surface Talks Of Other People's Worth

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Title:     Epigram: When Surface Talks Of Other People's Worth
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

When Surface talks of other people's worth
He has the weakest memory on earth!
And when his own good deeds he deigns to mention,
His _memory_ still is no whit better grown;
But then he makes up for it, all will own,
By a prodigious talent of _invention_.

First published in _Morning Post_, Oct. 11, 1802.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Epigram: When Surface Talks Of Other People's Worth

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