“ It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ”
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“ It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ”
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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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“ An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ”
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“ A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
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“ The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
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“ The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
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“ An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. ”
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“ Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ”
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“ The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ”
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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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“ The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ”
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“ Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ”
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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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“ The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support. ”
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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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“ So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. ”
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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 neighbour. ”
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“ A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business. ”
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“ A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business. ”
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“ So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism — despotism during the campaign — is indispensable. ”
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“ Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ”
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“ Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. ”
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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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“ A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. ”
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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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“ War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. ”
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“ The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. ”
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