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Page 12
... never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this side the grave you will never get away from the ...
... never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this side the grave you will never get away from the ...
Page 17
... never touched the common people . They have never caught up with power politics . The " realism " which is preached in Japanese and Italian news- papers would horrify them . One can learn a good deal about the spirit of England from the ...
... never touched the common people . They have never caught up with power politics . The " realism " which is preached in Japanese and Italian news- papers would horrify them . One can learn a good deal about the spirit of England from the ...
Page 88
... never been able to achieve any major change , because except in purely domestic matters it has never possessed a genuinely independent policy . It was and is primarily a party of the Trade Unions , devoted to raising wages and im ...
... never been able to achieve any major change , because except in purely domestic matters it has never possessed a genuinely independent policy . It was and is primarily a party of the Trade Unions , devoted to raising wages and im ...
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