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"Except the wife who idolized him," writes Mr. Woodberry in his excellent Life of Poe, "and [304] the mother who cared for him, no one touched his heart in the years of his manhood, and at no time was love so strong in him as to rule his life; as he was self-indulgent, he was self-absorbed, and outside of his family no kind act, no noble affection, no generous sacrifice is recorded of him."
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
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