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| In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. | | Change | |
| In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. | | Uncategorized | |
| In politics nothing is contemptible. | | Politics | |
| Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man | | Uncategorized | |
| Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination | | Gifts | |
| Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. | | Uncategorized | |
| It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. | | Uncategorized | |
| It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is easier to be critical than correct. | | Criticism | |
| It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. | | Uncategorized | |
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| It is well known what a middle man is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other | | Uncategorized | |
| It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing | | Uncategorized | |
| It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. | | Uncategorized | |
| Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist | | Judaism | |
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| King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. | | Uncategorized | |
