Poor Knight he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English. (Vladimir Nabokov)

Poor Knight he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English.

Vladimir Nabokov

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