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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

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
World
Destroy
Mellow
Nation
Disasters
Grow
Inhabitants
Grows
Tolerant
Nations
Eager
War
Simultaneously
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Disaster
Intolerant

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