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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Topic: Agreement
Source: None
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The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene,
followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord
Goderich.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Endymion (ch. III)
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The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the
Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own
cause.
Topic: Argument
Source: in a speech in the House of Commons
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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.
Topic: Candor
Source: None
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
Topic: Candor
Source: None
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There is no wisdom like frankness.
Topic: Candor
Source: None
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Change is inevitable in a progressive country,
Change is constant.
Topic: Change
Source: at Edinburgh
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In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Topic: Character
Source: None
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His Christianity was muscular.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Endymion (ch. XIV)
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Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Vivian Grey (vol. II, bk. VI, ch. 7)
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It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Vivian Grey (vol. II, bk. VI, ch. 7)
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News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.
Topic: Communication
Source: None
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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Topic: Compromise
Source: None
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There are Batavian graces in all he says.
Topic: Countries
Source: retort to Beresford Hope who had referred to him as an "Asian Mystery"
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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the
earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Topic: Countries
Source: retort to Beresford Hope who had referred to him as an "Asian Mystery"
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Topic: Crime
Source: None
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It is much easier to be critical that to be correct.
Topic: Criticism
Source: in a speech in the House of Commons
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You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature
and art.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Lothair (ch. XXXV)
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Topic: Criticism
Source: None
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Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into
politicians.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Lothair (ch. XVII)
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Topic: Despair
Source: None
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Topic: Desperation
Source: None
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
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I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
Topic: Diplomacy
Source: None
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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric
ever poured forth by the genius of man.
Topic: Doctrine
Source: Endymion (ch. LIV)
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Duty cannot exist without faith.
Topic: Duty
Source: None
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Topic: England
Source: The Young Duke (bk. I, ch. XI)
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
[Motto of Vraibleusia.]
Topic: Expectation
Source: Popanilla (ch. VII)
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He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
Topic: Expectation
Source: Tancred (bk. III, ch. VI)
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Topic: Expectation
Source: Tancred (bk. IV, ch. VIII)
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The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister
immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to
include all others.
Topic: Fame
Source: Sybil (bk. I, ch. III)
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
Topic: Freedom of the Press
Source: None
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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. -Benjamin Disraeli.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Topic: Genius
Source: Contarini Fleming (pt. IV, ch. 5)
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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
Topic: Grammar
Source: None
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Topic: Greatness
Source: None
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Topic: Grief
Source: None
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Topic: Heroism
Source: None
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Topic: Heroism
Source: None
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Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Topic: History
Source: Speech
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Topic: History
Source: None
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Ignorance never settles a question.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: in a speech in House of Commons
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Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had
only one idea, and that was wrong.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Sybil (bk. IV, ch. V)
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Justice is truth in action.
Topic: Justice
Source: in a speech
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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