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Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
M. R. James
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M. R. James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 1
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Dover
England
Montague Rhodes James
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