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Harriet Martineau: 'We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.'

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Harriet Martineau: 'If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'It's no use crying over spilt summits.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.'

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Harold MacMillan: 'When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.'

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