What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Never complain and never explain.
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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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London is a roost for every bird.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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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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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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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