He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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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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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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Never take anything for granted.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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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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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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