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Name and fame! to fly sublime thro’ the courts, the camps, the schools, is to be the ball of Time, bandied by the hands of fools.

Source:The Vision of Sin (1842); in Poems (Edward Moxon & Co., ed. 1842), Volume II, Page 218
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  • Name: Alfred Tennyson
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892
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