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"I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets."
- Bernard Keble Sandwell.

Bernard Keble Sandwell, known as BK Sandwell (born Ipswich England 1876, died Toronto Canada 1954), was the editor of 'Saturday Night', a liberal Canadian magazine, from 1932-1951.

He was a prolific and adaptable writer best known for two books: The Privacity Agent and Other Modest Proposals (1928) and The Diversions of Duchesstown and Other Essays which was published posthumously in 1955.

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