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Angela Thirkell - High Rising (1933)

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If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

Angela Thirkell

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Angela Thirkell

Angela Thirkell

Born: January 30, 1890
Died: January 29, 1961 (aged 70)
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