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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.