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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Change is constant in a progressive country.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
There is no waste of time like making excuses.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
I believe absence is a great element of charm.
Protection is not a principle but an expedient
Information upon points of practical politics.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
All my successes have been built on my failures.
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.