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Such reproductions may not interest the reader but after all, this is my autobiography, not his he is under no obligation to read further in it he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

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Neville Cardus
Age: 86 †
Born: 1888
Born: April 3
Died: 1975
Died: February 28
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John Frederick Neville Cardus
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus
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