Henry Bolingbroke quotes:
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
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Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.
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Nations, like men, have their infancy.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."
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You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.