Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Little things affect little minds.
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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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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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