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If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ev

If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. – Lord Melbourne

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm. – Proverb

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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