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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Air power may either end war or end civilization.
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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
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Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
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Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open and it had never been locked.
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The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.
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No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
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So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
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If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
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To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
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We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
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How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
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Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
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At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
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Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.
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The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
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