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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."

John Fletcher
(12/20/1579 – 08/29/1625)
English writer John Fletcher
"Ah! What is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is he withering?"

Dan Leno
(12/20/1860 – 10/31/1904)
English entertainer George Wild Galvin
"The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit."

Maud Gonne
(12/20/1865 – 04/27/1953)
Irish actor, patriot, feminist Maud Gonne
"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."

Sir Robert Menzies
(12/20/1894 – 05/16/1978)
Australian PM, on his "superiority complex" and the Australian Parliament Robert Gordon Menzies
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Max Lerner
(12/20/1902 – 06/05/1992)
US political columnist
"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."

Hortense Calisher
(12/20/1911 – )
US writer
"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

Billy Bragg
(12/20/1957 – )
English musician Billy Bragg
"She always accuses me of just listening to depressing music all day."

Chris Robinson
(12/20/1966 – )
US singer (Black Crowes) (was married to Kate Hudson), on his wife Chris Robinson
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