Alec Douglas-Home quotes:
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"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"
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My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.
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To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
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Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.
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...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
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The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.
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For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.