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Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Private Life
A Private Life
1859 · Duke Street, Westminster
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I can feel the paralysis still lodged in the right side of me while the Great Eastern lies unfinished in reputation and every man in London presumes he knows which of my works will outlive my body.
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