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" War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. "
Benjamin Disraeli
War
Aggravation
Never
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" London is a modern Babylon. "
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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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" We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. "
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" There is no education like adversity. "
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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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" The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. "
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" Little things affect little minds. "
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" 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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" Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. "
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" There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. "
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" No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. "
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He
" Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. "
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" Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. "
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" A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. "
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Man
Time
" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "
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Possession
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" A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. "
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Destiny
Chance
" 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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Own
Mother
Bad
" The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. "
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Talked
About
Less
" Fear makes us feel our humanity. "
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Feel
Humanity
" How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. "
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Much
Than
How
" Travel teaches toleration. "
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Travel
Teaches
Toleration
" There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. "
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Kinds
Three
" Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. "
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Circumstances
Own
" It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. "
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Human
Relationship
" Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. "
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Theory
Without
Nothing
" 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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Ideas
" Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. "
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Bring
Always
" You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. "
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" Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. "
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