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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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