“We cannot learn men from books.”
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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.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
