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" Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. "
W. H. Auden
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" The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. "
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" When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. "
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" Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. "
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