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Saturday, 11 December 2010
Context
Posted on 06:08
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'A man in court dress cannot walk the streets of London without being pelted by the mob . . . the Londoners hoot the king and the royal family when they appear in public.'
Casanova, 1746 (quoted in Peter Ackroyd's
London: The Biography
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