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

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