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Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it.”
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Bagehot argues that reverence for royalty is essential and cannot coexist with scrutiny.
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