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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

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Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
Novelist
Writer
Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
Children
Eyes
Romantic
Laborers
Made
Child
Sees
Drain
Suffering
Suffer
Drains
Lying
Behavior
Foul
Blackened
Eye
Clothes
Torn
Mouthed
Father
Parents
Beaten
Laborer
Mother
Wife
Fathers
Drunken
Cannot
Parent
Mothers
Tempered

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