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Benjamin Disraeli

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Without tact you can learn nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies d...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of m...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist
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It is the lot of man to suffer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics ...
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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.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
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