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"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."
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"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."
Fitness

"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."
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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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"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."
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"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
Coward

"I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?"
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"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."
Man

"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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