Every "Boots" in the Kingdom does it.

A man of learning had an article in an afternoon paper a few weeks ago which began thus: "It is now universally conceded by the French and the Americans that the decimal system is a failure," and he went on to concoct a scheme for our money that would be more "rational" and "historical." In this hot debate about Ulster a frequent phrase used is, "Let us see if we can't find the right formula to solve the difficulty"; their whole lives are formulas.

Now may not all the honours and garters and thistles and O.M.'s and K.C.B.'s and all manner of gaudy sinecures be secure, only because they can't abolish anything?
My servants sit at table in a certain order, and Mrs.Page's maid wouldn't yield her precedence to a mere housemaid for any mortal consideration--any more than a royal person of a certain rank would yield to one of a lower rank.

A real democracy is as far off as doomsday.

So you argue, till you remember that it is these same people who made human liberty possible--to a degree--and till you sit day after day and hear them in the House of Commons, mercilessly pounding one another.