# Quote — Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

> While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters."

- Author: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh.md)
- Book: [Scoop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/scoop.md)
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> As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit, or belief, they were called a Republic.

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> "Up to a point, Lord Copper."

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> Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.

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