Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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