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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
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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W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
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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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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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Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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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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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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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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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
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