William E. Gladstone

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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