“Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.”
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“Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.”
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“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
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“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”
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“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
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“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
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“Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.”
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“In politics nothing is contemptible.”
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“I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”
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“Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”
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“The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.”
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“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”
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“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
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“It is easier to be critical than correct.”
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“Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.”
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“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
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“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
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“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
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“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
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