“Fairly well, but it is like talking to a lot of tombstones.”

— Arthur James Balfour

Answer to Lord Riddell after he asked him how he liked speaking in the House of Lords (19 July 1922), quoted in Lord Riddell's Intimate Diary Of The Peace Conference And After 1918–1923 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1933), p. 379
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British Conservative politician and statesman 1848–1930

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