Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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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Never complain and never explain.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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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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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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We moralize among ruins.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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