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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47576)12/23/2004 1:04:28 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Re: "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

-Mark Twain

There was a society matron in 19th Century England who consorted with the finest. She commented of Gladstone, "he's the sort who over dinner will try to convince me that he's the greatest statesman in Europe."

And of Disraeli, "he's a man who can convince me over dinner that I'm the wisest woman in all of London."

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It was, of course, Disraeli who attempted to make a go of it in the financial world writing fictional prospectuses to fleece the unwary.
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