"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy."
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"Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions."
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"Variety is the mother of Enjoyment."
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"All must respect those who respect themselves."
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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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"In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination."
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"Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life."
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"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."
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"One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission."
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
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"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
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"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation."
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"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."
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"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
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"Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."
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"One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever."
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"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."
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"When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous"
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"When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England."
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"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."
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