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Social niceties are essential for the smooth operation of society, but neither boxing a man’s ears nor calling in the lawyers will bring them back.
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Posted December 6 2020
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Amid the Don Pacifico Affair, William Gladstone told Lord Palmerston that pride in his own country did not excuse bossing others about like a global schoolmaster.
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Posted December 3 2020
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After the devastation of the Great War, calls rose for a new economic and social system, and to put the wisdom of our forebears behind us.
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Posted November 17 2020
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To Napoleon, the way that politicians in Paris had forced metric measurements on the public was a lesson in bad government.
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Posted October 29 2020
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The British Tommy’s fondness for ‘Tipperary’ exasperated some of his countrymen, but ‘Alpha of the Plough’ thought it showed proper English spirit.
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Posted October 22 2020
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The mournful owl in her Sussex garden so troubled A. G. Gardiner’s friend that she rarely visited her house in the country.
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Posted October 22 2020