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All flowers are flirtatious—particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower.

Willard R. Espy

When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.

Willard R. Espy

Willard R. Espy

Willard R. Espy

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Born: December 11, 1910

Died: February 20, 1999 (aged 88)

Bio: Willard Richardson Espy was a US editor, philologist, writer, poet, and local historian.

Known for:

The game of words (1971)
Words to rhyme with (1986)
Oysterville (1977)
Say it my way (1980)
The Wordsworth Rhyming Dictionary (1997)

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