Vulgar words in The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 (Page 1)
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The man looked hard at me and said these very words, 'Damn all foreign countries, what has old England to do with foreign countries?'
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We met at the admiralty at twelve, where Graham lay much knocked up with the fatigue and anxiety of yesterday.
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So too, we who have it all before us know that it was a maxim of his own inner life, when he told them: 'The thirst for an enduring fame is near akin to the love of true excellence; but the fame of the moment is a dangerous possession and a bastard motive; and he who does his acts in order that the echo of them may come back as a soft music in his ears, plays false to his noble destiny as a Christian man, places himself in continual danger of dallying with wrong, and taints even his virtuous actions at their source.'