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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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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
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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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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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Be thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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If you are cold, tea will warm you if you are too heated, it will cool you If you are depressed, it will cheer you If you are excited, it will calm you.
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All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
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