In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

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Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882....

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