“Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.”

—  William Blake

1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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