His shortcoming is his long staying.


Benjamin Disraeli

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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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Genius, when young, is divine.
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
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Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
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Little things affect little minds.
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Duty cannot exist without faith.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil
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A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy
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I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]
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Tact is the intelligence of the heart
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist
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It is the lot of man to suffer.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that i...
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics ...
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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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 o...
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
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