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" Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. "

Benjamin Disraeli

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" 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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" The 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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" Silence is the mother of truth. "

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" Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. "

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" Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. "

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" There is no education like adversity. "

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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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" 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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" A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. "

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" We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. "

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" Damn your principles! Stick to your party. "

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" To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. "

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" Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. "

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" Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. "

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" Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. "

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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 right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. "

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" That fatal drollery called a representative government. "

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" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "

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" Genius, when young, is divine. "

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" Change is inevitable. Change is constant. "

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" Duty cannot exist without faith. "

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" The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. "

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" A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. "

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" William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. "

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