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Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise.

— Alec Douglas-Home

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I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.

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Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.

No, because I do my sums with matchsticks.

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