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- Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
- William Lloyd
- Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
- Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Ettiene De Grellet
- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt
- A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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