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title: "2 A.E. Houseman Quotes"
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# A.E. Houseman

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Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882. In his spare time he engaged in textual criticism o

##  Quotes by A.E. Houseman

> [“There's this to say of love and breath -- They give a man a taste for death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-houseman/there-s-this-to-say-of-love-and-breath-they-give-a-man-a-taste-for/)

A.E. Houseman

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/a-e-houseman-95078_death_there-s-this-to-say-of-love-and-breath-t_1345719.jpg)

> [“Her strong enchantments failing, Her towers of fear in wreck, Her limbecks dried of poisons And the knife at her neck, The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-houseman/her-strong-enchantments-failing-her-towers-of-fear-in-wreck-her/)

A.E. Houseman

[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c57/a-e-houseman-95078_darkness_her-strong-enchantments-failing-her-towe_2391725.jpg)

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