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But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
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Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh
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Born: October 28, 1903
Died: April 10, 1966 (aged 62)
Bio: Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, known by his pen name Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books.
Known for:
  1. Brideshead Revisited (1945)
  2. Decline and Fall (1928)
  3. A Handful of Dust (1934)
  4. Vile Bodies (1930)
  5. The Loved One (1948)
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