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- Algernon Swinburne
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- Angelle Sampey
- Chris Bucknam
- Chris Williamson
- Dan Jones
- Dan Maloney
- Ian Gold
- Jens Finke
- John Bennett
- Joshua A Norton
- Julio Gonzalez
- Kelly Chandler
- Lee Berger
- Mike Wallace
- Paul Holmes
- Quique Flores
- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Theo Zwanziger
- Vlado Buckovski
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Acting Quotes
LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.