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  • The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealththe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon† From this our aristocracy preserves us.

    -Walter Bagehot
      The English Constitution, ch.4,'The House of Lords'.

  • He's an Anglo-Saxon Messengerand those are Anglo- Saxon attitudes.

    -Dodgson
    Through the Looking-Glass, ch.7,'The Lion and the Unicorn'.

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