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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.

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Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

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The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

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

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On the left side goes Remus,
With wrists and fingers red.

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These be the great Twin Brethren
To whom the Dorians pray.

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

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

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The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

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Now who will stand on either hand,
And keep the bridge with me?

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Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

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It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

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

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The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

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The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

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Obadiah Bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-with-links-of-iron.

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He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.

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Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.

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

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

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

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

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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

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There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.

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The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

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In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

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