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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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