“ Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. ”
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“ While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside. ”
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“ Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name. ”
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“ It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. ”
- Lord Melbourne- Copy
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
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“ The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ”
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“ The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ”
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“ It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. ”
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“ It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. ”
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“ The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ”
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“ You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule. ”
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
- Lord Melbourne- Copy
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“ It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. ”
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
- Lord Melbourne- Copy
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“ You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule. ”
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“ If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. ”
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
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“ It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ”
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
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“ You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule. ”
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“ Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs… ”
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“ Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it… ”
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“ Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it… ”
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