The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEveryone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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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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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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