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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve

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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

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Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen and the gentlemen were not seamen.

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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

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Reform, that we may preserve.

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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