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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Youth
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Irrecoverably
Languor
Quintessential
Quickly
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