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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

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Ferdinand Mount
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: July 2
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Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount
3rd Baronet
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount
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