A division bell is a bell rung in or around a parliament to signal a division and thus call all members of the chamber so affected to vote in it.
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“Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple.... Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.”
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