Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
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John Masefield was a 19th-century English poet and writer. John Edward Masefield was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Read more on Wikipedia →