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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Writer
London
England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
Society
Individual
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Decrepit
Drafts
Humor

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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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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.
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