“Warmed by the instincts of a knightly heart, That roused at once if insult touched the realm, He spurned each Statecraft, each deceiving art, And met his foes, no vizor to his helm. This proved his worth; hereafter be our boast: Who hated Britons hated him the most.”

—  Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Bernal Osborne adapting a Bulwer-Lytton poem at a speech to the Reform Club, 1850

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