“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book Fanshawe
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“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book Fanshawe
"Fanshawe" (1828)
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