English Period

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    The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
    Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)