"Little things affect little minds."
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"Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds."
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
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"You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest."
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"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."
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"Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability."
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"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
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"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour."
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"Silence is the mother of truth."
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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
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"In politics, nothing is contemptible."
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"Man is only great when he acts from passion."
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"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
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"It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination."
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"The gondola of London [a hansom]."
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"Beauty can inspire miracles."
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"Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose."
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"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand."
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"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
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