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William Butler Yeats Quotes: Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
         

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.


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