We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contem...

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

Edgar Allan Poe

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic

January 19th, 1809 - October 7th, 1849