The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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There is no education like adversity.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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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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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 first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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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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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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