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  • I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wise Quotes , Hurt Quotes
  • The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Lying Quotes