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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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Physician
Poet
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Extensive
Knowledge
Fever
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Speculation
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Heat
Thinking
Ease
People
Helps
Burden
Needful
Mystery
Widening

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