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Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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Samuel Smiles
Age: 91 †
Born: 1812
Born: December 23
Died: 1904
Died: April 16
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East Lothian
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