Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Success is the child of audacity.
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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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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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