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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.
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Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
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If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.
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the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape
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