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A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the…

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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is…
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells…

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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou
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Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon

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