Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He has not a single redeeming defect.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Success is the child of audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Genius, when young, is divine.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Little things affect little minds.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Duty cannot exist without faith.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everything comes if a man will only wait.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Silence is the mother of truth.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene,
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no wisdom like frankness.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
[Motto of Vraibleusia.]
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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.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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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.
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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.
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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...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI