You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Justice is truth in action.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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