Oh, my country! How I leave my country!
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William Pitt the Younger
British prime minister (1759-1806). At 24 the youngest ever, he led Britain through the Napoleonic Wars, reformed finance, introduced income tax (1798), and engineered the 1800 Act of Union. Died unmarried at 46.
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Source: 1806年1月23日、ピット臨終の言葉 (伝承、一説には「ベリスフォードのミートパイを食べたい」とも伝わる)Unverified
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