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- Born in
- Altona
- Educated at
- Trinity Hall
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Trending topics shown first"We all have to go one day, but pray God let it not be over Afghanistan. An unspeakable country filled with unspeakable people, sheepshaggers and smugglers, who have furnished in their leisure hours so…"
"No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein."
"The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it."
"A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscienc…"
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1802
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Birth1880
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