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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
Diarist
Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Swimming
Islands
Streams
Gravy
Cooking
Gulf
Warm
Beef
Merely
Stream
England
Island
Food
Culinary

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