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" Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "

" No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. "

" 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. "

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" We must not let daylight in upon the magic. "

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" You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. "

" So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. "

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" The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. "

" 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. "

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" Woman absent is woman dead. "

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" No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. "