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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Always
Sedate
Adolescence
Seldom
Fancy
Youth
Imagination

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