"Difficulties melt away under tact."
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"Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient."
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"When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy."
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"Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear."
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"I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England."
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"All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!"
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"There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion."
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"England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation."
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"A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance."
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"There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident."
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"The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people."
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"The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe"
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"When I want to read a novel, I write one."
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"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own."
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"Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate."
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"The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb."
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"Poverty has its duties as well as its rights."
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"Books are the curse of the human race."
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"Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.""
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"O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray."
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