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'Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.'

'Death is just life's next big adventure.'

'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'

'Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.'

'There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.'

Born in Chipping Sodbury, Bristol
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the narrow narrower - Florence Nightingale
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Pepys’ First Diary Entry, - 1660, The Act of Union Signed - 1707, Ironbridge Opened - 1781, First Issue of The Times - 1788, English Claim to French Crown Ends - 1801, Frankenstein Published - 1818, Victoria Proclaimed Empress of India - 1877, Britains 1st telephone directory is published - 1880, Manchester Ship Canal Opens - 1894, Old-Age Pensions First Paid - 1909, First Edition of Desert Island Discs - 1942, Stanley Matthews Knighted - 1965, Britains Joins the EEC - 1973, First UK Mobile Phone Call - 1985, Fred West Found Hanged - 1995
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