Whatever brings a public man and his public face to face, on terms of mutual confidence and respect, is a good thing. The Circumlocution Office2022-01-05T20:06:39+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Celebrity, Fame| Read More
If we look at our social and daily life, we shall see how constantly present the press is, and how essential an element it has become of civilised existence. The Circumlocution Office2021-12-29T08:23:27+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Media, Press| Read More
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. The Circumlocution Office2021-12-16T21:55:33+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Poverty, Virtues| Read More
We are quite in a childlike state altogether, representing an infant institution, and not even yet a grown-up company. The Circumlocution Office2022-12-18T22:32:55+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Philanthropy| Read More
Those who are most distrustful of the advantages of education, are always the first to exclaim against the results of ignorance. The Circumlocution Office2019-06-18T15:34:28+01:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Education| Read More
From these garish lights I vanish now for evermore, with a heartfelt, grateful, respectful, and affectionate farewell. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-07T19:12:18+01:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Farewell| Read More
All the red tape in the country grew redder at the bare mention of this bold and original conception. The Circumlocution Office2019-06-18T18:11:30+01:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Bureauracy| Read More
I have not the least hesitation in saying that I have the smallest amount of faith in the House of Commons. The Circumlocution Office2019-06-18T15:16:04+01:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Government, Parliament| Read More
The more the man who improves his leisure in such a place learns, the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:27+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Education| Read More
I do sometimes begin to doubt whether the parrots of society are not more pernicious to its interests than its birds of prey. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:26+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Bureauracy| Read More
No man can estimate the amount of mischief grown in dirt. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:25+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Sanitation| Read More
