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I started at the unprodigal age of twenty-two to write, seriously, for the first tune.
With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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I started at the unprodigal age of twenty-two to write, seriously, for the first tune.
With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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I started at the unprodigal age of twenty-two to write, seriously, for the first tune.
With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Nature, having been unprodigal to him in the matter of height, makes up for it generously in the matter of breadth, with such lavish generosity, indeed, that he feels the time has come when, with tears in his eyes, he must say "no" to his bitter beer.
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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The leading divine of the company, Mr. Molyneux, at last explained to me that the unprodigal son was a lay figure, put in for dramatic effect, to make the story prettier, and that no note was to be taken of him.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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