In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) Ch. 9
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
 In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.  No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
 The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy  (1948) Ch. 9
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