Died Today - April 19

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"Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies."

Queen Christina
(12/08/1626 – 04/19/1689)
Swedish royalty

"A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts."

Benjamin Rush
(01/04/1746 – 04/19/1813)
US physician, statesman

Bridgeman Art Library

"If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity."

Benjamin Disraeli
(12/21/1804 – 04/19/1881)
English Prime Minister (29) (see other British PMs), on the difference

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

Charles Darwin
(02/12/1809 – 04/19/1882)
English scientist

"He's always backing into the limelight."

Lord Berners
(09/18/1883 – 04/19/1950)
English composer, on T. E. Lawrence

"The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer."

Alfred Whitney Griswold
(10/27/1906 – 04/19/1963)
US educator

"A thick skin is a gift from God."

Konrad Adenauer
(01/05/1876 – 04/19/1967)
Chancellor, German Republic

"People who travel are always fugitives."

Daphne duMaurier
(05/13/1907 – 04/19/1989)
English writer

"Chin up, Lipstick on."

Mary McConnell Morris
(03/17/1913 – 04/19/2001)
My US friend Molly's grandmother, giving advice to her granddaughters

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