The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThrough perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Never take anything for granted.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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