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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

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Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay

Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay

Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August 1881 - 30 October 1958), affectionately known as Emilie (her actual first name), was an English novelist. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel.

The novels include Abbots Verney (1906), The Lee Shore (1920), Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), Told by an Idiot (1923), And No Man's Wit (1940), The World My Wilderness (1950), and The Towers of Trebizond (1956). Her non-fiction work includes "They Went to Portugal", "Catchwords and Claptrap", a biography of Milton, and "The Pleasures of Ruins".

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