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Quotation by Gwendolyn Brooks
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They own Spode, Lowestoft, candelabra,
Mantels, and hostess gowns, and sunburst clocks,
Turtle soup, Chippendale, red stain "hangings,"
Aubussons and Hattie Carnegie.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. The Lovers of the Poor (l. 67–70). . .
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks. (1963) Harper & Row.
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