"Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him."
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"Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished."
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"William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect."
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"Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime."
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"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
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"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude."
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"An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur."
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"Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief."
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"Without tact you can learn nothing."
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"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
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"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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"The indulgence in grief is a blunder."
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"The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know."
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"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
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"Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical."
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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
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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."
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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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"All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise."
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"The canter is a cure for every evil."
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