The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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