"There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party."
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"The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy."
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"You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment."
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"Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels."
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"The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish."
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"Information upon points of practical politics."
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"Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist."
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"To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods."
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"No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language."
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"The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph."
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"I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible."
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"You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them."
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"You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows."
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"We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason."
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"The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy."
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"There is no waste of time like making excuses."
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"I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence."
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"Small things affects small minds."
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"You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews."
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"In politics experiments means revolutions."
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