Quote by Arthur Balfour
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. - Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour

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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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Unions
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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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Art
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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

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Mankind, Man
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Legacy

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. – Anon.

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Legacy

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc

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Legacy

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. – Neville Cardus

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Legacy

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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, “Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.” – Gracie Allen

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