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How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
Judge-Rapporteur
Physician
Poet
Defense
Attainable
Imagination
Luxurious
May
Vulgarity
Self
Delicacy
Things
Riot
Obliged
Leisure
Mad
Deaden

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