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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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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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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
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