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Quotes by Statesman
"There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor."
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"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."
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"Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential."
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"Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries."
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"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."
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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
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"Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged."
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"We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more."
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"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
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"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
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"Do everything as in the eye of another."
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"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
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"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small,large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force;never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
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"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
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"The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it."
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"You greatest gift is who you are, not just what you do."
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."
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"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
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"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
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"To live is to think."
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"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
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"If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."
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"Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning."
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"There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."
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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
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