Charles Buxton citations

Charles Buxton était politicien britannique.

✵ 18. novembre 1823 – 10. août 1871
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Charles Buxton: Citations en anglais

“To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 122

“Silence is the severest criticism.”

Often misquoted as "Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 57

“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 25.

“How strangely easy difficult things are!”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 83

“It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.”

Reported to be in his pamphlet How to Stop Drunkenness in Grappling with the Monster http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13509/13509.txt by T. S. Arthur
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