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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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