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Long life

Long life

2 June 2016

1:00 PM

2 June 2016

1:00 PM

It was a famous American editor and columnist Michael Kinsley who once defined the political ‘gaffe’ as something that occurs when a politician tells the truth; and he was right, for it is usually the case that a person gets into most trouble when he publicly says what he actually believes.

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