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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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Intoxicated with animosity.
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The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
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Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.
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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
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Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
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The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
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I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
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There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.
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Forget all feuds, and shed one English tearO'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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These be the great Twin BrethrenTo whom the Dorians pray.
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Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
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The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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