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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.


Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON