Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEvery man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Justice is truth in action.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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There is no gambling like politics.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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