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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.
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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
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He was not only a bore he bored for England.
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It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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