James VI

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    Like an old brandy after a long rain,
    Distinguished, and familiar, and aloof.
    James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985)

    The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
    —William James (1842–1910)