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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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He was always before men's eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
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(aged 76)
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