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'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'

'When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.'

'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'

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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall - Oliver Goldsmith
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Battle of the Boyne - 1690, First Day of the Somme - 1916, Disaster at Chilwell Shell Plant - 1918, Oxfam Opens its First Charity Shop - 1948, Wade wins Jubilee Wimbledon - 1977, Britain hands back Hong Kong to China - 1997, Smoking Ban in England - 2007
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