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The removal from among us of a public man of exceptional capacity and marked personality still in the prime of life, is at any time a tragedy. The sense of loss on personal and public grounds, and the inevitable diminution of the effective influence which at all times so essentially depends on the winning personality of the individual, are keen and real.

— Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

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Source: 26 October 1937, Speech at the laying of the foundation-stone of the Sir Fazl-i-Hussain Memorial at Lahore, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 102.
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