My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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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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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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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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