Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.Lord Melbourne
If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
Lord Melbourne
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Lord Melbourne
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Lord Melbourne
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