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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Literature
Solitary
Vice
Vices
Solitude
Worship
Food
Worst

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