"Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old."
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Quoted in Alethea Hayter (ed.) Fitzgerald to His Friends: Selected Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1979) p. 178
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Edward FitzGerald (poet)
Edward Marlborough FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883), born Edward Marlborough Purcell, was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
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