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"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization"
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Lytton Strachey
between March 1, 1880 and January 21, 1932. He/she was a famous
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