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The great unwashed.

— Henry Brougham

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  1. It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is…
  2. Try to know everything of something and something of everything.
  3. A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.
  4. War is a crime which involves all other crimes.
  5. Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties
  6. In my mind, he was guilty of no error he - was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once sa…
  7. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
  8. There have been periods when the country heard with dismay that 'the soldier was abroad.' That is not the case now. Let the soldier be abro…

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  • class
  • culture
  • masses

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