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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Sun
Air
Thoughts
Like
Bales
Spoil
Shut
Psychology

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