Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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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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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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We moralize among ruins.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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