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The House of Lords believed that it was creating the privileges of the
peerage, and it has produced the rights of the citizen. That vulture,
aristocracy, has hatched the eagle's egg of liberty.
And now the egg is broken, the eagle is soaring, the vulture dying.
Aristocracy is at its last gasp; England is growing up.
Still, let us be just towards the aristocracy. It entered the scale
against royalty, and was its counterpoise. It was an obstacle to
despotism. It was a barrier. Let us thank and bury it.
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