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"You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great."
"A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers."
"A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence."
"Every moment is travel - if understood."
"Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism."
"I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension."
"Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'."
"Nature is stronger than education."
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
"England does not love coalitions."
"To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career."
"What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?"
"My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas."
"A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor."
"Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary."
"There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes."
"Change is constant in a progressive country."
"London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law."
"This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth."
"Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing."