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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.


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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.



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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.



A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.



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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.



Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.



Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.



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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.



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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.



It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.






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