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Clever Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible…
- Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer…
- I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of…
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