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  • His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man†. He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.

    -John Aubrey
      Of Milton. Brief Lives (published1813),'John Milton'.

  • Brother can you spare a dime?

    - E(dgar) Y(ip) Harburg
       Title of song.

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