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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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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. - A J P Taylor
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The Battle of Myton-on-Swale - 1319, Vegetarian Society Formed - 1847, Jack the Ripper Kills twice in one Day - 1888, The discovery of penicillin - 1928, BBC begins TV Transmissions - 1929, Chamberlain Proclaims Peace for our Time, - 1938, Bourne End Rail Crash - 1945, Thunderbirds Are Go! - 1965, Radio 1 goes on air - 1967
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