Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITalk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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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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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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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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