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'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'

'Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.'

'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'

'He threatens many that hath injured one'

'Talking is the disease of age.'

'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.'

Born in Westminster, London
Died in London
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Edward VI succeeds to throne - 1547, Pall Mall – First Street Lit with Gas - 1807, William Burke is hanged - 1829, First Speeding Fine in Britain - 1896, Derek Bentley Hanged - 1953
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