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" He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Rake
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" I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. "
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" And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? "
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" The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. "
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" To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. "
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" Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. "
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" He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. "
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" Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. "
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" People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. "
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" Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. "
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" The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. "
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Real
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" A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. "
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" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "
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" Reform, that we may preserve. "
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May
Preserve
" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "
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" The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. "
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" I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. "
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Young
Satisfied
" Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! "
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Events
Great
" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "
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Odds
Die
" There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. "
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" There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. "
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" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "
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" Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. "
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World
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" Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. "
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Advertising
Money
" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "
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Single
" The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. "
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Power
" That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. "
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" She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "
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" Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. "
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" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "
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" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "
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Utopia
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