The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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