There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEveryone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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We moralize among ruins.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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