Quote#Dreams
A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy,…
Quote byThomas Nashe · 1567–1601
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Terrors of the Night (1594).
English (original)
A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy, which the day hath left undigested; or an after-feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations.
— Thomas Nashe
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