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On the vexed question of whether there is something families like mine should do, Sir Hilary said: "What you are trying to reconcile is privilege on one side of the ledger and poverty on the other. We inherited poverty, illiteracy, hypertension, diabetes, racial degradation - all the negative dimensions. You inherited wealth, property and prestige."