• A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. distinctive
2. generalized
3. children
4. odorless
5. crowd
6. stink

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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. by : W. H. Auden

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