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Sir Winston Churchill stood at the House df Commons bar recently, having a drink with an old journalist friend. Asked Churchill: "What are they saying about me these days?"

"Well, quite frankly, quite a few of your Conservative friends are saying that it would be a good thing for the party if you were to resign some time fairly soon," replied the journalist.

Churchill glanced around the bar: "You know, as I look at this room and think back over my long association with this House, I think that this is a pretty good pub." Britain's great man, thinking of the English publican's...

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