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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes: We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
         

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.


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