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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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A majority is always the best repartee.
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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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That is the fourth course, which in future I trust the right hon. Gentleman (Sir r. Peel) will not forget. The right hon. Gentleman tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces the steam-engine always back to the tea-kettle. His precedents are generally tea-kettle precedents.
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That is an apology, not an explanation; and apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
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But existing society has chosen to persecute this race which should furnish its choice allies, and what have been the consequences?
They may be traced in the last outbreak of the destructive principle in Europe. An insurrection takes place against tradition and aristocracy, against religion and property. Destruction of the Semitic principle, extirpation of the Jewish religion, whether in the Mosaic or in the Christian form, the natural equality of man and the abrogation of property, are proclaimed by the secret societies who form provisional governments, and men of Jewish race are found at the head of every one of them. The people of God co-operate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally themselves with communists; the peculiar and chosen race touch the hand of all the scum and low castes of Europe! And all this because they wish to destroy that ungrateful Christendom which owes to them even its name, and whose tyranny they can no longer endure.
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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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