Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.


Benjamin Disraeli

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
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Tact is the intelligence of the heart
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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 difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies d...
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of m...
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist
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It is the lot of man to suffer.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that i...
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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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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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics ...
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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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 o...
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el ...
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