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If the House of Peers ever goes, it will go in a storm, and the storm will not leave all else as it is.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “If the House of Peers ever goes, it will go in a storm, and the storm will not leave all else as it is.”
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Bagehot predicts that the dissolution of the House of Peers would occur amidst significant upheaval.
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