Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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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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As for our majority… one is enough.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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