My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITime is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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