What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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We moralize among ruins.
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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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Little things affect little minds.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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