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“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis