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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 509
AUTHOR: George Eliot (1819–80)
QUOTATION: An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
ATTRIBUTION: GEORGE ELIOT (Mary Ann Evans), Felix Holt, the Radical, chapter 5, p. 63 (1980). First published 1866.
SUBJECTS: Elections