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"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
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"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."
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"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
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"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."
"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."
"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."
"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
"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."
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