To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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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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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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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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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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