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1 " If this had been France, and the Queen had been Louis XIV, it would have been done by now-but it was England, Parliament had its knobby fingers around the Monarch’s throat, and Whigs and Tories were joined in an eternal shin-kicking contest to determine which faction should have the honor of throttling her Majesty, and how hard. "
― Neal Stephenson , Solomon's Gold (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3, Book 1)