"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
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"A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."
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"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."
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"A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience."
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"The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress."
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"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."
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"There is no diplomacy like silence."
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"Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance."
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"The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial."
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"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."
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"A precedent embalms a principle."
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"A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man."
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"Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits."
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"People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity."
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"The art of governing mankind by deceiving them."
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"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."
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"The essence of education is the education of the body."
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"It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light."
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"I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity."
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"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."
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