I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.
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Ask with urgency and passion.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
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Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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Dead men don't bite.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things
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The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings
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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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