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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli
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Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.Benjamin Disraeli
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.Benjamin Disraeli
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There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.Benjamin Disraeli
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Silence is the mother of truth.Benjamin Disraeli
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.Benjamin Disraeli
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.Benjamin Disraeli
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret to success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.Benjamin Disraeli
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.Benjamin Disraeli
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Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.Benjamin Disraeli
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.Benjamin Disraeli
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?Benjamin Disraeli
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Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.Benjamin Disraeli
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
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The canter is a cure for every evil.Benjamin Disraeli
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
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There is no index of character as sure as the voice.Benjamin Disraeli
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Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851Benjamin Disraeli
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.Benjamin Disraeli
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.Benjamin Disraeli
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.Benjamin Disraeli
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The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!Benjamin Disraeli
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The English nation is never so great as in adversity.Benjamin Disraeli
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There is no education like adversity.Benjamin Disraeli
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Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.Benjamin Disraeli
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Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.Benjamin Disraeli
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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.Benjamin Disraeli
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.Benjamin Disraeli
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The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.Benjamin Disraeli
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Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli
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He has not a single redeeming defect.Benjamin Disraeli
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.Benjamin Disraeli
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His Christianity was muscular.Benjamin Disraeli
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Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.Benjamin Disraeli
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More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.Benjamin Disraeli
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.Benjamin Disraeli
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Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
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Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.Benjamin Disraeli
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Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.Benjamin Disraeli
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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.Benjamin Disraeli
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.Benjamin Disraeli
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London is a roost for every bird.Benjamin Disraeli
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.Benjamin Disraeli
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.Benjamin Disraeli
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Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
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Something will turn up.Benjamin Disraeli
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We make our fortunes and we call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
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Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.Benjamin Disraeli
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There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.Benjamin Disraeli
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.Benjamin Disraeli
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Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.Benjamin Disraeli
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No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.Benjamin Disraeli
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A precedent embalms a principle.Benjamin Disraeli
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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 own.Benjamin Disraeli
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
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The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.Benjamin Disraeli
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Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.Benjamin Disraeli
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We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.Benjamin Disraeli
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For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
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London is a roost for every bird.Benjamin Disraeli
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Benjamin Disraeli
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We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.Benjamin Disraeli
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Luck is what a capricious man believes in.Benjamin Disraeli
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.Benjamin Disraeli
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.Benjamin Disraeli
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Every woman should marry - and no man.Benjamin Disraeli
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Departure should be sudden.Benjamin Disraeli
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.Benjamin Disraeli
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.Benjamin Disraeli
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.Benjamin Disraeli
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party!Benjamin Disraeli
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.Benjamin Disraeli
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.Benjamin Disraeli
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Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.Benjamin Disraeli
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I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.Benjamin Disraeli
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Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
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A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.Benjamin Disraeli
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The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.Benjamin Disraeli
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Without tact you can learn nothing.Benjamin Disraeli
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.Benjamin Disraeli
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.Benjamin Disraeli
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Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.Benjamin Disraeli
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Travel teaches toleration.Benjamin Disraeli
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Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.Benjamin Disraeli
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Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.Benjamin Disraeli
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.Benjamin Disraeli
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.Benjamin Disraeli