"When I consider that Lucan died at twenty-six, I cannot help ranking him among the most extraordinary men that ever lived."
— Lucan

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, letter to T. F. Ellis (30 November 1836), in The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Vol. I (1876), p. 459