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"Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be."
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Source: Said while correcting proofs of his last Parliamentary speech, 31 March 1881, in Robert Blake 'Disraeli' (1966) ch. 32
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