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The purpose of sketching out these half-dozen areas of risk is not to claim to know how bad they would turn out to be, but simply to point out how little thought the Brexotics have given to them, or to the suspicions and fears they have roused, not just in their own country but across the whole continent. There remains the last and to me the worst suspicion: that they would be quite happy to put their supposedly beloved country through a period of prolonged turmoil and stagnation simply for the exhilaration of being on their own at last.

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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

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If as Graham Greene said every novelist needs an icicle in his heart, a successful editor needs a small iceberg.

Of Daily Mail editor David English

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I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

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If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

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Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

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Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount

Born: July 2, 1939 (age 85)

Bio: Sir Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer, novelist and columnist for The Sunday Times as well as a political commentator.

Known for:

The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy (2012)
Subversive Family (1982)
English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments (2016)

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