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" The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. "

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

" A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. "

" Life is a school of probability. "

" One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. "

" A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. "

" An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. "

" 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. "

" The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. "

" Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "

" Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. "

" Woman absent is woman dead. "

" Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. "

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

" A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. "

" It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. "

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" The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. "

" The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. "

" An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. "

" 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. "

" The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. "

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

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" A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. "