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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.


Benjamin Disraeli

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Gi...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is the lot of man to suffer.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that i...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Adventures are to the adventurous.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
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