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Ability
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill
-Arthur Balfour
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Deception/Lying
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
-Arthur Balfour
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Forgiveness
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
-Arthur Balfour
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
-Arthur Balfour
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History
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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
-Arthur Balfour
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Legacy
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
-Arthur Balfour
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Mankind, Man
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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
-Arthur Balfour, The Foundations of Belief, being notes introductory to the study of theology, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pp. 30-31, 1895
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Questions
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Ask with urgency and passion.
-Arthur Balfour
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Reading
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
-Arthur Balfour
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Tyranny
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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
-Arthur Balfour
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Unions
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
-Arthur Balfour
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Value
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
-Arthur Balfour
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Books by and about Arthur Balfour