It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.
Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.
Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.
Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.
You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.