A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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The Times has made many ministries.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
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