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James F Byrnes: Friendship without self-interest...

James F Byrnes: Friendship without self-interest...

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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Michael Foot: He was the...

Michael Foot: He was the...

He was the only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

Source:...

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Henry Clay: There is no...

Henry Clay: There is no...

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions....

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Henry Clay: I have heard...

Henry Clay: I have heard...

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe...

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Augustine Birrell: Reading is not...

Augustine Birrell: Reading is not...

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

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Augustine Birrell: That great dust-heap...

Augustine Birrell: That great dust-heap...

That great dust-heap called history.

Source: Obiter Dicta, Carlyle, 1884.
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John Bright: Force is not...

John Bright: Force is not...

Force is not a remedy.

Source: Speech, Birmingham, 16 Nov 1880.
-- John Bright,...

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Georges Pompidou: There are three...

Georges Pompidou: There are three...

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

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Edmund Burke: To innovate is...

Edmund Burke: To innovate is...

To innovate is not to reform.

Source: Letter to a Noble Lord (published in Works,...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I prefer tongue-tied...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: I prefer tongue-tied...

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Source: De Oratore, bk. 3,...

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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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Nancy Astor: I refuse to...

Nancy Astor: I refuse to...

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

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A J Balfour: History does not...

A J Balfour: History does not...

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

Source: Quoted by his...

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Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Idleness is only...

Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Idleness is only...

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Source: Letter to his son, 20 Jul...

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William Temple: Truth will be...

William Temple: Truth will be...

Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water.

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Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is...

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Golda Meir: Old age is...

Golda Meir: Old age is...

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can...

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Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you...

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Eva Peron: Without fanaticism we...

Eva Peron: Without fanaticism we...

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Eva Peron: Almsgiving leaves a...

Eva Peron: Almsgiving leaves a...

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect...

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