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• I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
• The Thames is liquid history.
• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience…
• In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible…
• I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and…
• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
• Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
• I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when…
• You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean…
• I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
• I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
• Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

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