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Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
David Lloyd George
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David Lloyd George
Age: 82 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 17
Died: 1945
Died: March 26
Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Civil Servant
Diplomat
Politician
Solicitor
Manchester
England
David Lloyd George
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
George David Lloyd
George Lloyd
Earl Lloyd-George
Lord Lloyd-George
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Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
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[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
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The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
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Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.
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If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree no one individual can embrace it.
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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
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The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.
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