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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

"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."

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."

"The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other."

"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."

"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."

"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
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