Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter
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“He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.”
Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets"
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