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Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
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Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
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The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
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In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.
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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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