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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Born: Feb 16, 1886
Died: May 2, 1963

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Book, Judge, Three, Lost, Few, Spent, Has-Been, Horn, No-One, He, Until, House, Dead, Sailing, Been, Years, Fit, Bumped, Vessel, Cape, Sands, Desert, Rounded, Two

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