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"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
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"All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
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"A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'"
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"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge"
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"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
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"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
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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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"A canter is the cure for all evil."
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"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."
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"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. "
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"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."
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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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"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. "
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
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"Ignorance never settles a question."
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"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."
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"Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory."
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
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"The secret to success is consistancy to purpose"
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"Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. "
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"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. "
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"When I want to read a novel, I write one."
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"The expected always happens"
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"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
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"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."
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"Justice is truth in action."
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men."
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"If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. "
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""Little things affect little minds.""
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
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"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love"
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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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"Sikap yang layak dan tenggang rasa terhadap orang-orang lain merupakan dua sifat utama seorang yang bijak."
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"Kita dilahirkan untuk mencintai sesama.
Itulah prinsip keberadaan kita di dunia ini dan tujuan satu-satunya. "
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"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
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"The canter is a cure for every evil."
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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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"To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
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"Every woman should marry ... and no man."
— Benjamin Disraeli (Lothair)
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