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Clement is away till to-morrow even, then shalt thou call me a vain word-spinner and a liar; but if when thou comest home there, the folk there say to thee merchant Valerius is ridden away hastily, being called afar on a message of life and death, then shalt thou trow in me as a wise woman.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Moore proved to be a natural, disarming word-spinner.
Blog updates 2009
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To rephrase the question in politer terms, was he a great genius or just a colossally gifted word-spinner, strangely ” almost frivolously ” indifferent to the inconsistencies in his enormous output, and ultimately devoid of any concept of objective truth?
Summing Up Sartre Weightman, John 1987
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