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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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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London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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