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" Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. "
Benjamin Disraeli
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" Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. "
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" The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. "
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" Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. "
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" There is no gambling like politics. "
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" What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. "
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" Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. "
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" To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. "
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" A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. "
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" The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. "
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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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" Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. "
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" My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. "
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" The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. "
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" Never complain and never explain. "
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" The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. "
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" I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. "
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" Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. "
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" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "
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" The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. "
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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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" The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. "
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" Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. "
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" When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. "
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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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" Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. "
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" Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. "
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" Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. "
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" Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. "
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" There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. "
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