Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIExperience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Man 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.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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