"Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."

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“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”

“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

“Eternity was in that moment.”

“I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.”

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Literature1900–1985

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— R. W. K. Paterson

Philosophy1933

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— Ben Shapiro

Journalism1984

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— Donald Trump

Politics1945

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