KING EDWARD VII.
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asperities, inspires kindly feeling between various classes, and proves that all mankind are akin when engaged in an art which gives the highest expression to some of the best and purest feelings of the human heart.
(Royal College of Music, 1893)
He held medical men in high honour:
Any addition to the knowledge of medicine must always be followed by an increase in the happiness of mankind.
(1881)
As for his literary tastes, which are evinced in the royal library at Sandringham, it is evident that his chief interest was in the history of his country, and especially of his own time. He bought every work he could hear of, dealing with the public or private administration of the Eastern Empire, with the history of the Crimean War, with Colonial history, and reports of the Indian Mutiny. The collection generally is "that of a man of business, whose interests are many and diverse."
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