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William Edward Hartpole Lecky has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
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There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like…
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This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting…
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Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands…
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Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting…
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That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly…
— Irene Dunne
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Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it
— Claire Bloom
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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities,…
— Winston Churchill
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Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school, so right…
— Colin Hanks
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Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and…
— Francois-Noel Babeuf
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And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is…
— Rachel Kushner
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it,…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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