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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
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Alec Douglas-Home

Sports Rain Heaven

Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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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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Alec Douglas-Home

Life Two Political

1964 Speech, Jan.

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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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Passion Vanity Excess

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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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War Organization Effort

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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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Integrity Men Reason

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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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War Errors Principles

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The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.
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Doctors Fit Said

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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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Uncles Wife Wonder

In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.

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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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Missing Mind Age

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For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.
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Fall Return Resolution

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