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I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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