“Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour government” – King…
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” – Charles Dickens Few writers…
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“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits” – Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin is quite…
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“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt” – Herbert Hoover. Some individuals seem to have a…
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” – Irving Berlin Born Israel…
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“A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.” – J.R.R. Tolkien. J. R. R. Tolkien Biography…
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“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” – Gustave Eiffel. Gustave Eiffel…
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“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to…
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“All I know is just how to make people laugh” – Stan Laurel Born on 16 June 1890 in Ulverston,…
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“Live without seeing, but be what you are.” – Louis Braille Louis Braille Biography Born on 4 January 1809, Louis…
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“The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere ‘calculating machines.’ It holds a position wholly its own, and…
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“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” – Beatrix Potter…
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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” – Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell Biography Bertrand Russell…
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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Biography Albert Einstein…
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“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.” – Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling Biography Joseph Rudyard Kipling…
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