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'A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.'.. Elizabeth I
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.'.. Charles Dickens
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'The news is always bad, even when it sounds good'.. Aldous Huxley
'Most people do not pray; they only beg.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'.. Charles Darwin
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.'.. Winston Churchill
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Absence - that common cure of love.'.. Lord Byron
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.'.. Morrissey
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I love not man the less, but Nature more.'.. Lord Byron
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.'.. Stephen Fry
'Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold'.. John Betjeman
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke