Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Lord Melbourne
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
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It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy.. But from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
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