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"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."
"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."
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"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."
"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress."
"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."
"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."
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