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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
Approximate author period: c. 1796 AD · early modern
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- William Godwin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1796 AD · early modern
Approximate author-period evidence for William Godwin: life dates 1756 to 1836. Wikidata Q188569, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188569 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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