One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.
At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.
Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.
To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway
Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.