The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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