Alan Edwin Petty (Alan Judd) Quotes

In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.

Alan Edwin Petty

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• In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.

  

  Alan Edwin Petty
  • Mad
  • Disconcertingly
  • Classicists