All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”
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