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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
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City of Liverpool
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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
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I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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