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Buggers can't be choosers

— Maurice Bowra Disputed

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Source and credibility

Wikiquote notes doubts about whether Maurice Bowra really said this.

Source: Explaining his engagement, later called off, to a "plain" woman, poet and Somerville alumna Audrey Beecham, niece of conductor Thomas Beecham — Hollis (1976), p. 22. "Allegedly", according to Mitchell (2009), p. 144
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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