"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

Humility, Flattery, Royalty

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"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser."

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"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."

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"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."

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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

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"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

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"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."

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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

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"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action."

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"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."

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"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both."

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"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."

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"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."

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"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

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"There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice."

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"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."

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