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I have long realised that the great figures in my old party have long ago given up Toryism and have adopted Manchester Liberalism of about 1860.

— Harold Macmillan

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down before the divine right of experts.

Forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.

Nonsense, there are no clubs around Victoria.

First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go.

America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.”

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