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'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'

'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'

'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'

'Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe'

'The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower'


Died in Mayfair, London
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D H Lawrence
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Original Globe Theatre Burns Down - 1613, Battle of Cropredy Bridge - 1644, 1st Edition of the Daily Telegraph - 1855, Sons and Lovers Published - 1913, First British Credit Card Launched - 1966
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