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The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
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A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
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Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
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I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
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At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.
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In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
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The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
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It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.
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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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The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
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Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
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It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.
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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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