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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

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It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

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It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

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To be alive at all involves some risk.

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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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