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“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)

“Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
My person degrade & my temper chastise;
And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)