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Genius transcends the boundaries and frontiers of race, and makes its happy possessor an understanding citizen in whatever state he inhabits.

— Charles Whibley Political Portraits. Second Series (1923)

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Genius transcends the common rules of life and blood.

Political Portraits (1917)

The political game, as it is played in England, bears this resemblance to the game of fives, that you must get your adversary out before you may begin to score yourself.

Political Portraits. Second Series (1923)

The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall be stilled. His histories are, and will ever be, the epic of our race.

Political Portraits (1917)

Like most Radicals, he [Richard Cobden] lived in a fool's paradise where facts are of no account, and where, if principles prove fallacious, it is not the fault of the optimist who frames them, but of some vile conspirator against the common good.

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