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Michael Walmer
A JOURNAL KEPT IN PUBLIC
Monday, January 6, 2014
Commonplace Book
'...there is nothing so like an honest man as a knave who knows his business!..'
from Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Dore by George Sand (Chapter XXV)
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Michael Walmer
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