In 1920, with no penicillin or other mag

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	"In 1920, with no penicillin or other magical antibiotic cures, pneumonia in particular was a very dangerous illness indeed." - -- Roald Dahl

Top 5 quotes from Roald Dahl

"Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten."
"Game-playing at school is always fun if you happen to be good at it, and it is hell if you are not. I was one of the lucky ones."
"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."
"The sweet-shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very centre of our lives. TO us, it was what a bar is to a drunk. Without it, there would have been little to live for."
"The summer holidays! The magic words! The mere mention of them used to send shivers of joy rippling over my skin."

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