Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity.
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Most of this, I suppose, is undisputed, and calls for no enlargement. But the weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you never to debase the moral curre…
Permalink to quote #24 I am not thinking of those shining precepts which are the registered property of every school; that is to say - learn as much by writing as by reading; be not …
Permalink to quote #23 Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. But i…
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