It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.Walter Bagehot
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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It has been said that England invented the phrase, Her Majestys Opposition that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the ocean. There is a great object of which he has no idea.
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