Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Justice is truth in action.
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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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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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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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