Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 2

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.
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For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
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The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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Something will turn up.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
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We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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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.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.
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We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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There is no education like adversity.
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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.
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Every woman should marry - and no man.
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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.
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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.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
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