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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Lesley Blanch

Born: June 6, 1904
Died: May 6, 2007 (aged 102)
Bio: Lesley Blanch was an English writer, historian and traveller.
Known for:
- The Wilder Shores of Love (1954)
- The sabres of paradise (1960)
- Journey Into The Mind's Eye (1968)
- Pavilions of the heart (1974)
- The nine-tiger man (1965)