The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITalk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Justice is truth in action.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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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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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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