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I never saw Monty James's writing but doubt whether he can have been more illegible than Lady Colefax: the only hope of deciphering her invitations, someone said, was to pin them up on the wall and run past them!

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I'm also told that the latest popular game in America is called Incest—all the family can join in!

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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
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Rupert Hart-Davis

Rupert Hart-Davis

Born: August 28, 1907
Died: December 8, 1999 (aged 92)
Bio: Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd.
Known for:
  1. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
  2. Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters
  3. Halfway to heaven (1998)
  4. De Profundis: And The Ballad of Reading Gaol
  5. The Glass Coffin and Other Stories (1962)

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