My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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