It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates — Evelyn Waugh
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates — Evelyn Waugh
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates — Evelyn Waugh
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates — Evelyn Waugh
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates — Evelyn Waugh
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

— Evelyn Waugh
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