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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.

Reform, that we may preserve.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
Another for the pot!

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.