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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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