“[T]he bond which united them, if their critics were to be believed, might be a tranquil consciousness of effortless superiority.”

Remarks to a dinner given to Asquith in the House of Commons by MPs who had graduated from Balliol College (22 July 1908), quoted in The Times (23 July 1908), p. 12
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