- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
- Greatest Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
- Legends
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- Nov 07, 2020
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
- Creeds
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a school of probability.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020