Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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Travel teaches toleration.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Justice is truth in action.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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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