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W. H. Auden Quotes: Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
         

Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.


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Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
         



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