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Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
Claude McKay
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Claude McKay
Age: 41 †
Born: 1989
Born: September 15
Died: 1948
Died: May 22
Novelist
Poet
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Clarendon Parish
Jamaica
Hugh Hope
Festus Claudius McKay
C. E. Edwards
Adventure
Shun
Laws
Exceeds
Law
Zest
Life
Exceed
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Bound
Buffeted
Bounds
Anchorage
Storm
Seasoned
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