"Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day."
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Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell (January 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome) and erythromelalgia and pioneered the rest cure.
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