"Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power."
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"As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not."
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
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"Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel."
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"It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads."
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"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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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
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"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
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"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
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"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
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"An obedient wife commands her husband."
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"Duty cannot exist without faith"
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
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"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news."
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"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."
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"Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement."
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"No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout."
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"All my successes have been built on my failures."
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