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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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Organization and tidiness are not born traits; they must be inculcated, and like many great qualities, one needs to develop an appreciation for them.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Cultivate your brain with positive musings, for you will never ascend any more noteworthy than you envision.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Doing something may not bring cheerfulness; however, cheerlessness is never attained without doing something.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
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There is no education like adversity.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
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Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Man is more powerful than matter.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
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Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.
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