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Arthur Balfour

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Enthusiasm moves the world.


— Arthur Balfour


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


— Arthur Balfour


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I never forgive, but I always forget.


— Arthur Balfour


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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.


— Arthur Balfour


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


— Arthur Balfour


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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.


— Arthur Balfour


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


— Arthur Balfour


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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.


— Arthur Balfour


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Did you know about Arthur Balfour?

Released from his duties as private secretary by the general election of 1880 he began to take a more active part in parliamentary affairs. As the session proceeded the rift grew in the Unionist ranks. In the late 1920s he served as an elder statesman in the second government of Stanley Baldwin.

At first seen as something of a dilettante he attained prominence as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1887–1891. The general election the following January was a disaster for the Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies left with a mere 157 seats in Parliament.

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