Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) English scholar and poet [Alfred Edward Housman]
In L. Houseman, A. E. H. (1937)

From a list of insults drafted by A. E. Housman, posthumously published.  The name was left blank in the original, with the intent to fill it in when used later on a target.


 
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