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British political Analyst, Economist and Editor, one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.1826-1877
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.”

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