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Quote by Evelyn Waugh
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

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