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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.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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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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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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We moralize among ruins.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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