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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Kingston
John Sinjohn
Thought
Afflicted
Ever
Immoral
Nothing
Ran
Many
Straight
People
Looked
Doubt
Quite
Beauty

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