“No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.”
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.