Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. ✨ Letter to Benjamin Bail…

John Keats
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. ✨ Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 242
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. ✨ Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 242

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