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There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

Hope Mirrlees

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Hope Mirrlees
Age: 91 †
Born: 1887
Born: April 8
Died: 1978
Died: August 1
Novelist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Kent
England
Helen Hope Mirrlees
Certain
Doe
Thing
Homely
Angle
Fairy
Looked
Single
Become

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