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'A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.'

'How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems'

'It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn'

'Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.'

'No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth'

'Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die'

Born in Bristol, Bristol
Died in Cumbria
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Battle of Loudoun Hill - 1307, Britain captures Jamaica - 1655, Indian Mutiny begins - 1857, First UK Air Display - 1910, Zeppelin Fire-Bombs Southend - 1915, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister - 1940, Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland - 1941, Tony Blair announces intention to resign - 2007
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