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Robert Graves Quotes

Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurse? Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.

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