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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Edward George, Baron George

Edward Alan John George, Baron George, known as Eddie George, or sometimes as "Steady Eddie", was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003 and sat on the board of NM Rothschild and Sons.

September 16, 1938 - April 18, 2009
Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves
Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? — © Edward George, Baron George
Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.
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