"Party is organized opinion."
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"Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question."
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"The originality of a subject is in its treatment."
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"That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house."
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"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others."
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"There is no gambling like politics."
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"A person's fate is their own temper."
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"I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar."
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"Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires."
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"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
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"The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob."
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"The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity."
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"The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause."
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"Meditation is culture."
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"If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly."
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"What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations."
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"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."
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"Turtle makes all men equal."
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"Destiny is our will, and our will is nature."
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"I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses."
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