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You don't need any brains to listen to music. Luciano Pavarotti		Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
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About Arthur James, Lord Balfour

	Arthur James, Lord Balfour
	(1848-1930) 1st earl of Balfour British statesman, former prime minister.

Popular Arthur James, Lord Balfour Quotes

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Ask with urgency and passion.

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