A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Never take anything for granted.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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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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