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Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.

Beverley Nichols

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Beverley Nichols
Age: 85 †
Born: 1898
Born: September 9
Died: 1983
Died: September 15
Actor
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Horticulturist
Journalist
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Playwright
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
John Beverley Nichols
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