Quote#Books & Reading
There is no real republicanism except that of literature. If I find a…
Quote byStanley Baldwin · 1867–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at Birkbeck College (20 March 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 146.
English (original)
There is no real republicanism except that of literature. If I find a human face light up at some quotation which everyone ought to know, that man, be he duke or dustman, is my brother. That is the bond of literature. Study it, the glorious literature of the first country in the world—your own.
— Stanley Baldwin
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