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— Benjamin Disraeli"What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations."
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Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
— George Washington
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