“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”

— Holly Black, book White Cat

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American children's fiction writer 1971

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Context: When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
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