Nations get as

Nations get as
Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.
  

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Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.
Our distrust is very expensive.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character