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A Little Learning

A Little Learning
Evelyn Waugh

A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography is Evelyn Waugh's unfinished autobiography. It was published just two years before his death on Easter Sunday, 1966, and covers the period of his youth and education. The title is a well-known quotation from Pope's An Essay on Criticism, "A little learning is a dang'rous thing".

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“Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.”

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A Little Learning (1964)

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