Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland—we have a great Parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party, and plunders the other, till, having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, he cries out, "Let us have 566 no party questions, but fixity of tenure."
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That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.
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Before the civil war commenced, the United States of America were colonies, and we should not forget that such communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.
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