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The difficulty of reforming an old institution like the House of Lords is necessarily great; its possibility rests on continuous caste and ancient deference.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot discusses the inherent challenges of reforming the House of Lords due to its longstanding traditions.
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Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
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