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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
| John Bach, Actor (1946) |
| Peter Erskine, Musician (1954) |
| Lord Thomson Of Fleet, Publisher (1894) |
| Ken Follet, Author (1949) |
| Ken Follett, Author (1949) |
| Kenny G, Musician (1956) |
| David Hare, Playwright (1947) |
| Alfred Kazin, Critic (1915) |
| Kathleen Kennedy, Producer (1953) |
| John Maynard Keynes, Economist (1883) |
| Gamaliel Bailey, Journalist (1859) |
| Eleanor Farjeon, Writer (1965) |
| Orlando Gibbons, Composer (1625) |


