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NUMBER:4744
QUOTATION:To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say,
Is a keen observer of life,
The word “Intellectual” suggests straight away
A man who’s untrue to his wife.
ATTRIBUTION:W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-U.S. poet. New Year Letter, note to l. 1277 (1961), repr. In Collected Poems (1976).
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