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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Christopher Ricks

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Christopher Ricks
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: September 18
Literary Critic
Bromley
Kent
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks
True
May
Glinting
Many
Directness
Good
Radiate
Things
Utmost
Characteristic
Characteristics
Simplicity

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