Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is no education like adversity.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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