“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
