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For questions related to a fairly well-known sentence or phrase that is widely understood to have originated in a publicly available text or speech, in many cases attributed to a famous person (or multiple famous people). See also the "quotations" tag.
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British Prime Ministers are either vicars or bookies: quote origin?
The old adage has it that British prime ministers are either vicars or bookmakers. In Phoney Tony the country has a bookie masquerading as a vicar, a posture that does little for the standing of eith …
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British Prime Ministers are either vicars or bookies: quote origin?
To comfort him I developed on the spur of the moment a theory, often propounded subsequently - that to succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular im …
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