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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
Diplomat
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Politician
Statistician
City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
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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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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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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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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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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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