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Contemporary historian Ramanath Aiyar catalogued the ways in which Maharajah Moolam Thurunal led the way in modernising British India.
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Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, shared his excitement at the way railways were making Indians more independent.
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A persistent dream prompts a Norfolk tradesman to walk all the way to London in the hope of bettering his lot.
From ‘College Addresses’ by Sir Hubert Parry (1920).
Sir Hubert Parry explained to students at the Royal College of Music that some mistakes are creative whereas others are destructive.
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Richard Cobden despaired at British statesmen using the peerless Royal Navy merely to strangle trade in other countries.
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The leader of a wolf-pack makes some sheep an offer they’d better refuse.