"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
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"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."
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"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
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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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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
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"Never complain and never explain."
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"Finality is not the language of politics."
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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 own."
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"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
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"There is no education like adversity."
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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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"A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
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"Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."
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"Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."
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"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
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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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