To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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