Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effec…

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Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. ✨ John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, p.59
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Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. ✨ John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, p.59

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