Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe secret of success is constancy to purpose.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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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 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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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There is no education like adversity.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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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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