The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a charity campaigning and working in child protection in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.
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“Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.”
—Edward Fox (b. 1934)
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—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)