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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich.

The noble Lord was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant.

In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

His Christianity was muscular.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

There are Batavian graces in all he says.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

It is much easier to be critical that to be correct.

You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.