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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Kingston
John Sinjohn
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Wine
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Aspiration
Dull

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