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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a…
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The police are the public and the public are the police
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
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No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
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The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,…
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I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes,…
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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in…
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
— Joseph Addison
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic,…
— Louis Aragon
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
— Charles Lamb
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Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard…
— Baltasar Gracian
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