Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDiligence is the mother of good fortune.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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