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'I've always said if you want to outwit an Englishman touch him when he doesn't want to be touched'

Born in Leicester, Leicestershire
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Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. - William Pitt (The Younger)
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First Edition of Daily Mirror - 1903, The Balfour Declaration - 1917, BBC Television begins broadcasting - 1936, M1 Opens - 1959, Penguin Wins Lady Chatterley Case - 1960
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