Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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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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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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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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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