Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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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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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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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