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How many more of England's heroes—how many more of England's best and bravest—are to be sacrificed to the Moloch of Mid Lothian?

— Lord Randolph Churchill

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The "Moloch of Mid Lothian" was William Ewart Gladstone, who was Member of Parliament for Midlothian

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