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He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Louis Kronenberger

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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Critic
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Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
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