How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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My 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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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Never complain and never explain.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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