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" Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. "
Benjamin Disraeli
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" We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. "
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" Adventures are to the adventurous. "
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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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" An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. "
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" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "
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" Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. "
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" The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. "
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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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" 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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" No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. "
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" The secret of success is constancy to purpose. "
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Secret
" Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. "
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" You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. "
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" Where knowledge ends, religion begins. "
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Where
Begins
" Diligence is the mother of good fortune. "
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Success
Mother
" Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. "
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Everyone
You
Royalty
" As for our majority... one is enough. "
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Our
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" A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. "
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" Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. "
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Fear
Word
" The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. "
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Man
Power
" I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. "
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Never
Sometimes
Forget
" To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. "
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Step
Knowledge
" 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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Meditation
Human
Long
" A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. "
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Chance
" Damn your principles! Stick to your party. "
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Your
Damn
Party
" I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? "
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Am
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" The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. "
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One Word
Politics
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" The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. "
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Ring
Lie
Life
" The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. "
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Ignorance
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