Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria, edited by Niger Leask. Vol. 1, London: J. M. Dent, 1817, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Biographia Literaria." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.