Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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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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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