George Grenville quotes
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“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.”
-- George GrenvilleSource : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, George Grenville (1769). “The Speech of a Right Honourable Gentleman, on the Motion for Expelling Mr. Wilkes, Friday, February 3, 1769”, p.41
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“The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.”
-- George Grenville
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.58, Penguin
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
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“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.”
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