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" An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Own
Mother
Bad
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" The secret of success is constancy to purpose. "
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" Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. "
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" I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. "
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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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" A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. "
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" Finality is not the language of politics. "
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" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "
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" You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. "
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" Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. "
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" In politics nothing is contemptible. "
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" We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. "
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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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" Damn your principles! Stick to your party. "
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Damn
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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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Find
Man
" In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. "
Benjamin Disraeli
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Country
" 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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Again
" Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. "
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" Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. "
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Studying
Learning
" There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. "
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Three
" Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. "
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" Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. "
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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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" The 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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" We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. "
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Powerful
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" London is a roost for every bird. "
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Every
Bird
" Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. "
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Time
" 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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" Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. "
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" It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. "
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