Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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 palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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