My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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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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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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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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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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