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  • Lord Melbourne A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Anthony Holden I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Lord Melbourne I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Barry Humphries In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Lord Melbourne It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lord Melbourne You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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