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Winston Churchill: When you have...

Winston Churchill: When you have...

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Source: Justifying the...

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Winston Churchill: Nothing recalls the...

Winston Churchill: Nothing recalls the...

Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.

Source: My Early Life.
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Winston Churchill: I am ready...

Winston Churchill: I am ready...

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another...

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Winston Churchill: Don't talk to...

Winston Churchill: Don't talk to...

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

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Winston Churchill: Meeting Franklin Roosevelt...

Winston Churchill: Meeting Franklin Roosevelt...

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking...

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Winston Churchill: The English never...

Winston Churchill: The English never...

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Source: Speech, 16 Nov 1948, to...

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Winston Churchill: Victory at all...

Winston Churchill: Victory at all...

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without...

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Edmund Burke: A thing may...

Edmund Burke: A thing may...

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: He only employs...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: He only employs...

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Source: In Correct...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I am not...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: I am not...

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Source:...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I never admire...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: I never admire...

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: He does not...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: He does not...

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Source:...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Study carefully, the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Study carefully, the...

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing contributes to...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing contributes to...

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: When you are...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: When you are...

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Every man can...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Every man can...

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Thomas Carlyle: Scepticism, as I...

Thomas Carlyle: Scepticism, as I...

Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A...

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P G Wodehouse: He spoke with...

P G Wodehouse: He spoke with...

He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from...

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P G Wodehouse: To find a...

P G Wodehouse: To find a...

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Source: In The Golfer's Book of...

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G K Chesterton: The golden age...

G K Chesterton: The golden age...

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Source: In The...

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