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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. - Thomas Gra

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray

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Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
Tis folly to be wise. – Thomas Gray

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Thomas Gray
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