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Henry Taylor [1800-1886] English

Rank: 103
Dramatist, Swimmer

Henry Taylor was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in four Summer Olympics between 1906 and 1920. Taylor served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, and continued to swim competitively until 1926.

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No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.		101
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.		102
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.		103
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.		104
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.		105
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.		106
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.		107

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