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“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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