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Augustus Hare

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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.


— Augustus Hare


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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.


— Augustus Hare


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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.


— Augustus Hare


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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.


— Augustus Hare


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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.


— Augustus Hare


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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.


— Augustus Hare


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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.


— Augustus Hare


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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.


— Augustus Hare


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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.


— Augustus Hare


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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.


— Augustus Hare


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Did you know about Augustus Hare?

This last included a number of accounts of encounters with ghosts. Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English writer and raconteur. ")
In his biography of Somerset Maugham writer Ted Morgan mentions that Hare whom he refers to as "the last Victorian" befriended Maugham who became a frequent guest at his country house Holmhurst in Baldslow Sussex.

He was the youngest son of Francis George Hare of Herstmonceux East Sussex and Gresford Flintshire Wales and nephew of Augustus William Hare and Julius Hare. This last included a number of accounts of encounters with ghosts. He also compiled numerous travel books compiled for John Murray including Walks in Rome Walks in London Wanderings in Spain Cities of Northern Southern and Central Italy (separate works) Days near Rome.

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