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The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.


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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?



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This page presents the quote "The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.". Author of this quote is Charles Lamb. This quote is about apollo, silence, dumb,.