Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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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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Little things affect little minds.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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