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The present Colonial Secretary has been too clever by half [...] I believe he is a very fine bridge player. It is not considered immoral, or even bad form to outwit one's opponents at bridge. It almost seems to me as if the Colonial Secretary, when he abandoned the sphere of bridge for the sphere of politics, brought his bridge technique with him.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
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Born: August 27, 1893
Died: February 23, 1972 (aged 78)
Bio: Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.

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