The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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