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In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.

— Fowell Buxton Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

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How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied.

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame.

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!

Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

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