The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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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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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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 first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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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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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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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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