The Worlds Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906. Vols. VIIX: British | | Aphorisms | By Lord Beaconsfield (18041881) |
| From Novels and Speeches THE WOMAN who is talked about is generally virtuous, and she is only abused because she devotes to one the charms which all wish to enjoy. | 1 |
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It takes three generations to make a gentleman. | 2 |
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A majority is always better than the best repartee. | 3 |
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An after-dinner anecdote ought to be as piquant as anchovy toast. | 4 |
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What is the use of belonging to an old family, unless to have the authority of an ancestor ready for any prejudice, religious or political, which your combinations may require? | 5 |
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What is crime amongst the multitude is only vice among the few. | 6 |
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Confiscation is a blunder that destroys public credit; taxation, on the contrary, improves it. Both come to the same thing. | 7 |
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The critic is a man who has failed in literature or in art. | 8 |
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One cannot ask any person to meet another in ones own house without going through a sum of moral arithmetic. | 9 |
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When a man falls into his anecdotage, it is a sign for him to retire. | 10 |
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The gentleman was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. | 11 |
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The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. | 12 | |
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