The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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There is no education like adversity.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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