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The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
Judge-Rapporteur
Physician
Poet
Proportion
Never
Bears
Men
Small
Life
Less
Uttered
Others
Repeat
Part
Repeats
Unknown
Much
Unconscious
Always

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