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- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- The whole world is a man's birthplace.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- You add insult to injury.
(Injuriae Addis Contumeliam) - Anonymous
- When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), In Stobaeus, Florilegium
- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
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