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" Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. "

William E. Gladstone

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" There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. "

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" Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. "

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" Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. "

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" Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. "

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" No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. "

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" The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. "

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" Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. "

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" Justice delayed is justice denied. "

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" It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. "

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" Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. "

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" It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. "

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" Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. "

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" No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. "

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" All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. "

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" You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. "

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" We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. "

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