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It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Harold MacMillan

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Harold MacMillan
Age: 92 †
Born: 1894
Born: February 10
Died: 1986
Died: December 29
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Chelsea
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Maurice Harold Macmillan
Lord Stockton
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