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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.
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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.
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Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.
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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
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The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
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I myself find waiting more tiring than action.
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Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.
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Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it
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Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.
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God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.
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Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.
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There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
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More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.
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