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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: August 25th, 1800

Died: December 28th, 1859

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