Gordon Alliance

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“Oh! too convincing—dangerously dear—
In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers.... In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumours of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.”
—James Keir Hardie (1856–1915)