Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIFaith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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