In politics nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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 choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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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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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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