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Quotes from The Young Melbourne — Lord David Cecil

1902–1986 England

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The Whig aristocracy was a unique product of English civilization. It was before all things a governing class. At a time when economic power was concentrated in the landed interest, the Whigs were among the biggest landowners: their party was in office for the greater part of the eighteenth century.

The Young Melbourne (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lord David Cecil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.