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" The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Foreign
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He
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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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" 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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" Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. "
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" William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. "
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" It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. "
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" Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. "
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" 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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" Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. "
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" Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. "
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" The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. "
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" Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. "
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" We moralize among ruins. "
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" There can be economy only where there is efficiency. "
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" That fatal drollery called a representative government. "
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Fatal
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" The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. "
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Ready
" I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. "
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People
" Duty cannot exist without faith. "
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" Never take anything for granted. "
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" He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. "
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Only
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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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" Despair is the conclusion of fools. "
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Conclusion
Fools
" When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. "
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" Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. "
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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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Quality
Great
" Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. "
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Health
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" Adventures are to the adventurous. "
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