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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 saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough - Les Dawson
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Normans Invade Ireland - 1169, Great Exhibition opens - 1851, TUC meets to agree on a General Strike - 1926, Sutton Hoo Dig Begins - 1939, Betting Shops Legal - 1961, Last UK Concert by Beatles - 1966, Tony Blairs 'New Labour' sweeps to power - 1997, Millennium May Day Protests - 2000
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