A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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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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London is a roost for every bird.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Never complain and never explain.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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