Manchester Liners/peacetime Operations 1919%e2%80%931939

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    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
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    “The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”
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    “There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
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