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    Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs,
    That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;
    Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
    “An honest man’s the noblest work of God!”
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    Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national characteristics.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)