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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

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Jamie Oliver
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 27
Activist
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In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
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