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" The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Boundless
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Power
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" 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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" The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. "
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Gallery
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" The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "
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Best
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" She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "
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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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Navy
" The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? "
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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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Great
May
" 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
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" The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. "
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Theory
Men
Logic
" None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. "
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Far
Birth
" We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. "
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Wonderful
" 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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People
Enemies
" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "
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Than
Utopia
Better
" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "
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Man
Will
Wicked
" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "
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Desire
Without
Than
" 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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He
Real
Never
" The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. "
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Beauty
Bible
" That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. "
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Desires
People
" Reform, that we may preserve. "
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Reform
May
Preserve
" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "
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British
Morality
Ridiculous
" Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. "
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Maxim
Nothing
Useless
" A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. "
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Breaker
Coming
May
" There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. "
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Evils
Newly
Freedom
" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
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Almost
Civilization
" Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. "
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Man
World
Temple
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Sail
Your
Constitution
" Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. "
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Persecution
Them
Made
" The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. "
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Always
Dislike
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Wisdom
Single
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