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It is significant of much that in the seventeenth century members of Parliament quoted from the Bible; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the classics; in the twentieth century from nothing at all.

— G. M. Trevelyan British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782–1901) (1922)

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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

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The sum total of progress associated with the Industrial Revolution has not been wholly for the good of man.

Kindly old England has always in the long run revolted against "fascist" experiments at the permanent suppression of "the other side".

England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

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Security and liberty were obtained under the Hanoverian Constitution, because, under Walpole, the Whigs became, what they had not always been, the "moderate men."

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