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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a prominent British politician. He served as a Conservative MP from 1970 to 1983 and as the Foreign Secretary from 1983 to 1985. His political career is marked by his advocacy for European integration and human rights.

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Knows May Real

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.”

Real Helping Shows Pleasure Painting Aim Raises Intention Wide Colour Flattering

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

“All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.”

Understanding Sides Liberty Corners Manners Rough Polish Politeness Rust Collision Owing

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.”

World Truth Powerful Fiction Please Truth Is Most Powerful Resemblance

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury