You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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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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Never complain and never explain.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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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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