Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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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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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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