Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIOne secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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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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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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