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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.