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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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
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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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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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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
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I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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