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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.

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Fishing is unquestionably a form of madness but, happily, for the once-bitten there is no cure.

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Oh, they must find someone else, once they get away from this Blackpool hot-house. Even if they can't agree on Rab or Quintin there must be someone else. But please, please, not me!

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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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When I have to read economic documents I have to have a box of matches and start moving them into position to simplify and illustrate the points to myself.

Alec Douglas-Home

To my deafness I'm accustomed,
To my dentures I'm resigned,
I can manage my bifocals,
But Oh, how I miss my mind.

Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home

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Born: July 2, 1903

Died: October 9, 1995 (aged 92)

Bio: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964.

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