"In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools."

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Source: Long Line of Princely Gaffes. Said in 1994 to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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