What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIPlagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Success is the child of audacity.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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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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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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