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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
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Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.
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Edward George, Baron George
Born:
September 16, 1938
Died:
April 18, 2009
(aged 70)
Bio:
Edward Alan John George, Baron George known as Eddie George, or "Steady Eddie", was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003 and sat on the board of Rothschild.
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