There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEvery man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDiligence is the mother of good fortune.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan is only great when he acts from passion.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere can be economy only where there is efficiency.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITwo 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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIA precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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