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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Michael Arlen
Born: November 16, 1895
Died: June 23, 1956 (aged 60)
Bio: Michael Arlen, born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England.
Known for:
- Green Hat (1924)
- Hell! said the Duchess (1934)
- The London venture (1919)
- Exiles
- The romantic lady (1921)
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