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He was no patronizer of modern poets or composers.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

But even to his soul he did not utter the remainder of the truth about himself, namely: "I should like to cut a dash before this insufferable patronizer of England and the Five Towns."

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold