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Success is not final, failure

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Nothing in life is so

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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Men stumble over the truth

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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Mr Attlee is a very

Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
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An appeaser is one who

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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It is better to be

It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic.
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The heights of great men

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
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I cannot forecast to you

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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I gather, young man, that

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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