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Quotations
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British
Philosopher,
Politician and
Civil Servant
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained." "God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them." "A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them." "The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or implode their efforts to obtain it." "The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom." "The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." "The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal." "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
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