Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There 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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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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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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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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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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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