Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDamn your principles! Stick to your party.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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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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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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