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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."
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"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
"Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic."
"I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now."
"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
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"This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all."
"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."
"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."
"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."
"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
"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."
"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
"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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