A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILondon is a roost for every bird.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Justice is truth in action.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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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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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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We moralize among ruins.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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