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"The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people."
"No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood."
"Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead."
"England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics."
"'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'"
"If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr."
"She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans."
"I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister."
"A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt."
"Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything."
"You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession."
"Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be."
"No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert."
"That fatal drollery called a representative government."
"The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled."
"Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful."
"No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world."
"Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man."
"Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety."
"You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible."