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"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
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"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
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"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
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