"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."

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"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."

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"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."

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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."

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