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We Are Taught Words, Not Ideas.

You Asked Me Where I Generally Lived. In My Workshop [i.e. In His Study] In The Mornings And Always In The Library In The Evening. Books Are Companions Even If You Don’t Open Them.

The World Is Governed By Very Different Personages From What Is Imagined By Those Who Are Not Behind The Scenes.

The Right Hon. Gentleman [sir Robert Peel] Caught The Whigs Bathing, And Walked Away With Their Clothes.

When Men Are Pure, Laws Are Useless; When Men Are Corrupt, Laws Are Broken.