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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

Aneurin Bevan

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Aneurin Bevan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: July 6
Politician
Secretary Of State For Health
Trade Unionist
Nye Bevan
Right
Thing
Tolerated
Years
Honorable
Gentleman
Democracy
Worst
Four
Half

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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