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"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
Government
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
Neighborhood
"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
Nature
"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."
Society
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man
"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
Writing
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
People
"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."
Society
"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."
People
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality."
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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."
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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."
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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""
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"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."
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"Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces."
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