13 ordspråk av Lord Edward F. Halifax
Lord Edward F. Halifax
Lord Edward F. Halifax föddes den
16 April 1881 och dog den 23 Dezember
1959 - He was viceroy to India, 1926-31 and ambassador to U.S..
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
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I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.
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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes
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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
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