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The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

Philip Guedalla

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Philip Guedalla
Age: 55 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 12
Died: 1944
Died: December 16
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Jokes
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
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Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
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