Quote by Henry Bolingbroke
Nations, like men, have their infancy. - Henry Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy. – Henry Bolingbroke

Other quotes by Henry Bolingbroke

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. – Henry Bolingbroke

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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Knowledge
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. – J. Bartlett Brebner

Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting. – Proverb

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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