Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
BENJAMIN DISRAELISomething unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Justice is truth in action.
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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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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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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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 palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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There is no education like adversity.
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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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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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