Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you … - Richard Le Gallienne

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Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.

Richard Le Gallienne

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About Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he lived in the US, without altering his period style. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.

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