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If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merelya careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining with the firm maintenance of established rights the correction of private abuses and the redress of real grievances,I can for myself and my colleagues undertake to act in such a spirit and with such intentions.

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The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest? The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692

— Quoted inW J Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902).

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He was not merelya chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Edmund Burke

— 1781 Commenting on William Pitt theYounger's maiden speech in the House of Commons, 26 Feb.

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Bankers'genes were Wall St. genes, especially in the big cities. If the banks were conservative just now [1955], it was because bankers still awoke in the middle of the night, trembling and sweaty with thoughts of the Crash. But intimeanewgenerationwouldtake over: ambitious, overcompetitive young men to whom1929 would be merelya date on a page; such menwould sever theroots of memory as if with an ax, not realizing that those tendrils were also the rudder cables.

— 1987 The Ropespinner Conspiracy.

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Despite what even manyartists appear to believe, art is not and should not be merelya skill. It should actually be completelyand utterly the language of our feelings, our frame of mind; indeed, even of our devotion and our prayers.

Caspar David Friedrich

— Quoted in Caspar David Friedrich1774-1840, Tate Gallery (1972).

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I hope I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat. A spade is never so merelya spade as the word Spade would imply.

C(harles) B(urgess) Fry

— 1950 Venus Observed, act1.

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