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Commenting the death of a defender of proportional representation:
He has joined what even he would admit to be the majority.

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Epitaph for Sir John Simon:
This stone with not unpardonable pride,
Proves by its record what the world denied:
Simon could do a natural thing – he died.


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Epitaph for his friend Maurice Bowra:
Without you, Heaven would be too dull to bear,
And Hell would not be Hell if you are there.


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That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog.

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John Sparrow

John Sparrow

Born: 1906
Died: 1992 (aged 86)
Bio: John Sparrow was an English academic, barrister, book-collector and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford from 1952-77.
Known for:
  1. Mark Pattison and the idea of a university
  2. Words on the air
  3. Half-lines and repetitions in Virgil
  4. Grave epigrams and other verses

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