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'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.'

'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'

'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'

'Bournemouth is one of the few English towns that one can safely call 'her''

Born in Camden, London
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. - George Eliot
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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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