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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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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| Birth: | 27th December, 1898 |
| Death: | 11th June, 1951 |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Profession: | Humorist, Teacher, Writer |
About
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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