One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWithout publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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