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  1. What you say about Gladstone is most just. What restlessness! What vanity! And what unhappiness must be his! Easy to say he is mad. It look…
  2. Gladstone will soon have it all his own way and whenever he gets my place we shall have strange doings.
  3. He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
  4. The defects of his strength grow on him. All black is very black, all white very white.
  5. An almost spectral kind of phantasm of a man--nothing in him but forms and ceremonies and outside wrappings.
  6. I saw in the face of Mr. Gladstone a blending of opposite qualities. There were the peace and gentleness of the lamb, with the strength and…
  7. Who equals him in earnestness? Who equals him in eloquence? Who equals him in courage and fidelity to his convictions? If these gentlemen w…
  8. He was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer who ever made the Budget interesting. 'He talked shop,' it was said, 'like a tenth muse.' He c…

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