"I recall a phrase of that incorrigible cynic Labouchere, alluding to Mr. Gladstone's frequent appeals to a higher power, that he did not object to the old man always having a card up his sleeve, but he did object to his insinuating that the Almighty had placed it there."
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Politicians from EnglandMembers of the Parliament of the United KingdomAgnosticsPresidents of the Board of Trade (United Kingdom)Chief Secretaries for Ireland
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Lord Curzon, Modern Parliamentary Eloquence: The Rede Lecture, delivered before the University of Cambridge, November 6, 1913 (1914), p. 25
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