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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. - W H Auden

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English poet and dramatist

Born:21st February, 1907
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Starsign: Pisces

Author Keywords: Dramatist, Poet, English

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Tom Stoppard, Terence, John Ford, Aristophanes, J B Priestley

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