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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Enoch Powell

1977

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1977

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Enoch Powell

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Powell, Enoch. Joseph Chamberlain. Thames and Hudson, 1977.

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