English character and English ...

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
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 James Anthony Froude

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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
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 James Anthony Froude
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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 James Anthony Froude
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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 James Anthony Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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 James Anthony Froude
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
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 James Anthony Froude