"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
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"The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."
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"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
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"How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence."
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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
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"One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage."
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"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
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"Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others."
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."
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"The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity."
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"We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results."
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"London is a modern Babylon."
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"The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye."
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"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
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"The unfortunate are always egotistical."
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"There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it."
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"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
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"Principle is ever my motto, no expediency."
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"There is moderation even in excess."
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"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."
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