You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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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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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Little things affect little minds.
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