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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER VIII
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We are oligarchic in all things, from our parliament to our army.

Individual interests are admitted as obstacles to the general prosperity.

This plague runs through all things with us.

It accounts for the fact that, according to the last marriage statistics, thirty per cent, of the male population signed with the _mark_ only.

It accounts for the fact that London is at once the largest and ugliest city in Europe.


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