Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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