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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.