One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.
Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.
Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.
One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned
Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.