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«Woman absent is woman dead.»
«It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.»
«Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.»
«Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.»
«A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.»
«Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.»
«A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.»
«It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.»
«In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.»
«Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.»
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