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Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
– Barbara W Tuchman

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  33. That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man’s occasional triumphs over medicine. – Barbara W Tuchman
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