One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Justice is truth in action.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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