“The laws were very comical; to bet was voted lax,
But your betting was the only thing that nobody could tax.”

—  A. P. Herbert

Speech to Parliament, 1930s; quoted by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years (1970).

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British politician 1890–1971

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