A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWilliam Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Little things affect little minds.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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