• Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet
  

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1. contemptible
2. beggars
3. exhibit
4. public
5. sores
6. money

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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. by : W. H. Auden

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