He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars … - Thomas B. Macaulay

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bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

Thomas B. Macaulay

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

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