Without tact you can learn nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWilliam Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the 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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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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