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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.

— Lord David Cecil The Young Melbourne (1939)

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That city [Oxford] is one of the few supreme monuments of European history and civilization, the English equivalent of Florence or Venice.

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