Brideshead Revisited
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How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation, Dresden figures of pastoral gaiety! Our wisdom, we prefer to think, is all of our own gathering, while, if the truth be told, it is, most of it, the last coin of a legacy that dwindles with time.
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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My favourite Waugh book, and the most atypical of his ouevre.