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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

Anthony Trollope

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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical
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Before Coward Men Tyrants Until Women
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Also Easily No Way Well Write
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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