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Small: We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the
Benjamin Disraeli
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: The more extensive a mans knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do
Benjamin Disraeli
"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, Statesman
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Small: The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and mi
Benjamin Disraeli
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me
Benjamin Disraeli
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: I love not man the less, but Nature more
Lord Byron
"I love not man the less, but Nature more"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the bes
Lord Byron
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: One certainly has a soul but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.
Lord Byron
"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: In solitude, where we are least alone
Lord Byron
"In solitude, where we are least alone"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: Adversity is the first path to truth
Lord Byron
"Adversity is the first path to truth"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: Absence - that common cure of love
Lord Byron
"Absence - that common cure of love"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown
William Edward Hickson
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
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Small: Faint heart never won fair lady
William Edward Hickson
"Faint heart never won fair lady"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
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Small: One goes through school, college, medical school and ones internship learning little or nothing about goodness
Ashley Montagu
"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
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Small: Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason
Ashley Montagu
"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
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Small: There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed
J.B. Priestley
"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and w
J.B. Priestley
"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes
J.B. Priestley
"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as po
J.B. Priestley
"In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: If you are a genius, youll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no
J.B. Priestley
"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more
Virginia Woolf
"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of t
Virginia Woolf
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: That great Cathedral space which was childhood
Virginia Woolf
"That great Cathedral space which was childhood"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Thought and theory must precede all salutary action yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theo
Virginia Woolf
"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers
Virginia Woolf
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: The eyes of others our prisons their thoughts our cages
Virginia Woolf
"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends
Virginia Woolf
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and disc
Virginia Woolf
"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: You cannot find peace by avoiding life
Virginia Woolf
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry
Virginia Woolf
"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man
Virginia Woolf
"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anon
Virginia Woolf
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind
Virginia Woolf
"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well
Virginia Woolf
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded
Virginia Woolf
"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world
Virginia Woolf
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Arrange whatever pieces come your way
Virginia Woolf
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would no
Margaret Thatcher
"Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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Small: You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure
Margaret Thatcher
"You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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Small: If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would ac
Margaret Thatcher
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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Small: I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air
Margaret Thatcher
"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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