What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan 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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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