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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is moderation even in excess.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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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Silence is the mother of truth.
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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 Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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