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

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
Imbecility
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