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"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty."
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"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."

"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"

"I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

"The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview."

"In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion. But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now."

"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."

"Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are."
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