Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIHe has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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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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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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