“There is no real republicanism except that of literature. If I find a human face light up at some quotation which everyone ought to know, that man, be he duke or dustman, is my brother. That is the bond of literature. Study it, the glorious literature of the first country in the world—your own.”

—  Stanley Baldwin

Speech at Birkbeck College (20 March 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 146.
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