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... asked to houses where politics were the ruling interest . I could not discover in the eminent states- men I met there any marked capacity . I concluded , perhaps rashly , that no great degree of intelligence was needed to rule a nation ...
... asked to houses where politics were the ruling interest . I could not discover in the eminent states- men I met there any marked capacity . I concluded , perhaps rashly , that no great degree of intelligence was needed to rule a nation ...
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... upright and dignified , sitting in state I have often asked myself whether at such moments they ever remem- bered how their minds in solitude were sometimes occupied and whether it ever made them uneasy to think [ 55 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... upright and dignified , sitting in state I have often asked myself whether at such moments they ever remem- bered how their minds in solitude were sometimes occupied and whether it ever made them uneasy to think [ 55 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
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