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"Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it." Christopher Smart (04/11/1722 – 05/21/1771) English religious poet

"The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain." Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (01/17/1886 – 05/21/1926) English writer

"You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning." Jane Addams (09/06/1860 – 05/21/1935) US social worker

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity." Eric Hoffer (07/25/1902 – 05/21/1983) US philosopher

"Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course." Sir John Gielgud (04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000) English actor, on Cecil Beaton’s decision to act in a production of Lady Windermere’s Fan

"I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?" Dame Barbara Cartland (07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000) English novelist, on her four female secretaries

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