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Quotation from Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“--We murder to dissect.”

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (spoken by The speaker)

Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (Gutenberg #9622: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798))

The meddling intellect destroys what it analyses.

Citation: "--We murder to dissect." — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (Gutenberg #9622: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798)). (id lyrical-ballads-q2)

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