Quote #25

[Of Guizot] A Puritan born in France by mistake.

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  1. It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
  2. A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
  3. You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a per…
  4. A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
  5. A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
  6. A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
  7. A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious …
  8. A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

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