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While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.

Source: Bits of Gossip, ch. 8, 1904.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis, (Jun 24 1831-1910), US author, journalist, critic; She wrote Waiting for the Verdict, 1867 and Bits of Gossip, 1904.

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