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He worshipped that goddess, wheresoever she appeared; but he paid his particular devotions to her in her favorite habitation, in her chosen temple, the House of Commons.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke poetically describes the reverence a politician has for the House of Commons as a temple of fame.
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