Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere can be economy only where there is efficiency.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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London is a roost for every bird.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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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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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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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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 palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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There is no education like adversity.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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