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'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'

'The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures'

'Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking'

Born in Penzance, Cornwall
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/davy_humphrey.shtm The BBC page on Davy
http://www.humphry-davy.cornwall.sch.uk/ The Humphrey Davy school in Cornwall

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. - Walter Scott
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St Augustine Introduces Julian Calendar to England - 0597, William the Conqueror crowned - 1066, Domesday Book Commissioned - 1085, First Christmas Tree in Britain - 1800, Mrs Beeton Published - 1861, End of the Soviet Union - 1991
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