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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. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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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" That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. "
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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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" 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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" The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "
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Best
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" The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "
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" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "
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" He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. "
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" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "
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" A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. "
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" Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. "
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" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "
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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
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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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Knowledge
Great
May
" Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. "
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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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" 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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" The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. "
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Proof
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" Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. "
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" The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. "
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Men
Logic
" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "
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Utopia
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" A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. "
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Coming
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" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "
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Truth
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" 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
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" There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. "
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Newly
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" 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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" Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. "
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" She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "
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Understood
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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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