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• My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with…
• The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries…
• I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
• Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
• In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
• We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary…
• I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
• Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more…
• A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A…
• Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
• Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…
• The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on,…

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