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A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

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.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As for our majority... one is enough.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.