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The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
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Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
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The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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A single breaker may recede but the tide is evidently coming in.
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If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.
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No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
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A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.
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