Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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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 precedent embalms a principle.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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