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Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon Quotes: Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
         

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.


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Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
         



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