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Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
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I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.
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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.
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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
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They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
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I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.
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When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
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Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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