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british-statesman care deserve dress surely
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. Philip Stanhope
british-statesman course time
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
british-statesman days frequently wiser
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. Lord Chesterfield
british-statesman work
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. Norman Tebbit
british-statesman great himself ivy man merit power raise round
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
british-statesman children flatters forward larger man neither nor plays serious trifles trusts women
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
british-statesman business found great guiding himself learning man
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
british-statesman general improvement mankind supposed taking
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
british-statesman cause evolution force
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.