There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINever complain and never explain.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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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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Travel teaches toleration.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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