Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.Lord Melbourne
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
Lord Melbourne
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
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Lord Melbourne
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
Lord Melbourne
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