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Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.
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Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
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Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.
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There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.
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Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.
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Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.
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I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
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Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
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Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
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I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
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The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.
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