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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
Diplomat
Leader
Politician
Statistician
City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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Passion
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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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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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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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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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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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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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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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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
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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.
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Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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