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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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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
"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
Neighborhood
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
Art
"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."
Money
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Courage
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
People
"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."
People
"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."
Man
"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."
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"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage."
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"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
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