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Most memorable…was the discovery (made by all the rich men in England at once) that women and children could work twenty-five hours a day in factories without many of them dying or becoming excessively deformed. This was known as the Industrial Revelation.
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History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.
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Charles II was always very merry and was therefore not so much a king as a Monarch.
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For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who don't want to learn—much.
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The Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).
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Napoleon's armies always used to march on their stomachs shouting: 'Vive l'Intérieur!'
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King Edward's new policy of peace was very successful and culminated in the Great War to End War. This pacific and inevitable struggle was undertaken in the reign of His Good and memorable Majesty King George V and it was the cause of nowadays and the end of History.
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Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
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America was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a.
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Oh to be in England now that Dean Nuisance is on a Hellenic cruise.
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The Roman Conquest was, however, a Good Thing, since the Britons were only natives at the time.
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When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.
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The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).
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The Rump Parliament—so called because it had been sitting for such a long time.
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The cruel Queen died and a post-mortem examination revealed the word 'callous' engraved on her heart.
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He was extremely fond of his son William, who was, however, drowned. Henry tried to console himself for his loss by eating a surfeit of palfreys. This was a bad Thing since he died of it and never smiled again.
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The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off, for fear of Political Economy.
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The Norman Conquest was a Good Thing, as from this time onwards England stopped being conquered and thus was able to become top nation.
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Gladstone…spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.
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Edward III had very good manners…and made the memorable epitaph: 'Honi soie qui mal y pense' ('Honey, your silk stocking's hanging down').
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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W. C. Sellar
Born:
December 27, 1898
Died:
June 11, 1951
(aged 52)
Bio:
Walter Carruthers Sellar was a Scottish humourist who wrote for Punch. He is best known for the 1930 book 1066 and All That, a tongue-in-cheek guide to all the history you can remember, which he wrote together with R. J. Yeatman.
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