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There are few things more important in the business of the state, than that the results of inquiry and research should be realised by those who have had the conduct of it.

— Henry Taylor The Statesman (1836)

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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Philip van Artevelde (1834)

An unreflected light did never yet
Dazzle the vision feminine.

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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

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He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

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