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As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

~William Wilberforce

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I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

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What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

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The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

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My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Politician

Born: August 24th, 1759

Died: July 29th, 1833

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