I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Birth: | 9th March, 1892 |
Death: | 2nd June, 1962 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Poet |
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate.
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