National Police Force

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““Five o’clock tea” is a phrase our “rude forefathers,” even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for “all the ills that flesh is heir to,” the glorious Magna Charta.”
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“Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.”
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“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
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