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People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

David Livingstone

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David Livingstone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1813
Born: March 19
Died: 1873
Died: May 1
Explorer
Geographer
Missionary
Physician Writer
Researcher
Blantyre
Lanarkshire
Much
Missionary
Made
Africa
Life
Missions
People
Privilege
Spending
Sacrifice
Talk
Rather
Emphatically

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