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Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

Walter de La Mare

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Walter de La Mare
Age: 83 †
Born: 1873
Born: April 25
Died: 1956
Died: June 22
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Charlton
London
Walter Ramal
Walter John de la Mare
Perfect
Cleverness
Often
Bore
Body
Bores
Even
Fools
People
Clever
Fool
Fashion
Head

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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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