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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

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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William Gladstone
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The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
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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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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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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
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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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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
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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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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 thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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