Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEvery man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Never take anything for granted.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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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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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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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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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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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