It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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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Success is the child of audacity.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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