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And you were also dead wrong — for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer. |
And you were also dead wrong — for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer. |
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|'''Mencius Moldbug.''', ''An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives'' (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)}} |
|'''Mencius Moldbug.''', ''An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives'' (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)}} |
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The truth is great, and shall prevail, |
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When none cares whether it prevail or not. |
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|'''Coventry Patmore''', '' Magna Est Veritas''}} |
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Latest revision as of 15:50, 21 December 2020
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing." — Jorge Luis Borges, "Dead Men's Dialogue", Dreamtigers
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"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
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"Here’s the good news. —Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling by Scooter
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If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple. —Mencius Moldbug., An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)
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When all its work is done, the lie shall rot; —Coventry Patmore, Magna Est Veritas
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