Quote by Samuel Butler
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. - Samuel Butler

Opinions have vested interests just as men have. – Samuel Butler

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Public opinion is a second conscience. – William R. Alger

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