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“There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.”

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Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood was a renowned potter, born on July 12, 1730, and died on January 3, 1795. He is known for his exquisite ceramic works and his significant impact on the British ceramic industry. more

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