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the great receipt for quieting a country is a good thrashing first and great kindness afterwards: the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

— Charles James Napier

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The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you.

Manchester is the chimney of the world. Rich rascals, poor rogues, drunken ragamuffins and prostitutes form the moral; soot made into paste by rain the physique, and the only view long chimney: what a place! The entrance to hell realised!

War is detestable and not to be desired by a nation’, adding, 'It falls not so heavily upon soldiers – it is our calling; but its horrors alight upon the poor, upon the miserable, upon the unhappy, upon those who feel the expense and the suffering, but have not the glory.

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