Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us—something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.
— Benjamin Disraeli Modern

British PM

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From his novel 'Tancred: or, The New Crusade'.

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1847

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