It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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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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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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