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New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

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James Agate
Age: 69 †
Born: 1877
Born: September 9
Died: 1947
Died: June 6
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Theatre Critic
James Evershed Agate
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