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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Peace
Morbid
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