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  • England's on the anvilhear the hammers ring Clanging from the Severn to theTyne!

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The  Anvil'.

  •    A politician is the devil's quilted anvil, He fashions all sins on him, and the blows Are never heard.

    -John Webster
      The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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