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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

— Benjamin Disraeli Lothair (1870)

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Without publicity there can be no public spirit, and without public spirit every nation must decay.

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