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NUMBER:40610
QUOTATION:My father used to say,
“Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow’s grave
or the glass flowers at Harvard.”
ATTRIBUTION:Marianne Moore (1887–1972), U.S. poet. “Silence,” Selected Poems (1935).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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