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William Ewart Gladstone

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If you were to put that man on a moor with nothing on but his shirt, he would become whatever he pleased.
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T. H. Huxley, quoted in Lord Robert Cecil's Goldfields Diary, ed. Ernest Scott (1945).

 
William Ewart Gladstone

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