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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Brougham

A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe limits for its own exertions.

Respectable mediocrity offends nobody.

The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself.

The parasite courtier in the palace is the legitimate father of the tyrant.

The schoolmaster is abroad.

To genius irregularity is incident, and the greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity, as if it disdained to move in the vulgar orbit.