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The Expansion of England (1883)
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We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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September 10, 1834
Died:
January 13, 1895
(aged 60)
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