Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIChange is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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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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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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