"We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves."
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H. M. Tomlinson
Henry Major Tomlinson (21 June 1873 – 5 February 1958) was a British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea.
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