The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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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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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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