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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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We moralize among ruins.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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