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The difficulty of making up a Government is very much like the difficulty of putting together a Chinese puzzle: the spaces do not suit what you have to put into them.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgThe difficulty of making up a Government is very much like the difficulty of putting together a Chinese puzzle: the spaces do not suit what you have to put into them.
Bagehot compares the complexity of forming a government to solving a Chinese puzzle.
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