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After a very long year we've got a very short knight.
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Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 397.
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On the knighthood of the rather short Sir Robert Muldoon in January 1984. Lange repeated the quote on U.S. television as an explanation of Sir Robert's dislike for him.

 

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