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Letter: The basics that we should get back to

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19940112
Author:From Professor DESMOND JULIAN

Sir: In understanding our Prime Minister's attitude to morality one need look no further than his hero, Anthony Trollope. No doubt he shares Trollope's view that one should aspire to be a gentleman. As Victoria Glendinning writes in her biography of the author, the basic characteristics of the gentleman are "self-discipline, fortitude, good manners, fastidiousness, a degree of reserve, a sense of duty and the habit of command". What more could John Major demand of us or our political masters?

But Mr Major should read Ms Glendinning's next paragraph: "The fact remained that gentlemen often ...

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