A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

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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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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

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