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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.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
Diplomat
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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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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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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It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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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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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
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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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Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
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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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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
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