Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITime is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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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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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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London is a roost for every bird.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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