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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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