#no

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

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I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#allowing #cannot #due #excellent #help

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#easier #know #than

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #burdened #charge #debts #discharge

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#army #awaken #commerce #delusion #destruction

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient. ↗

— Robert Walpole

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The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. ↗

— James T. Walsh

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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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