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O god thou has appointed three score years and ten as man's allotted span but O god statistics go to prove that comparatively few ever attain that age.
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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.
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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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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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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:
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Decline and Fall (1928)
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Vile Bodies (1930)
The Loved One (1948)
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