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No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.