What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe moralize among ruins.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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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Silence is the mother of truth.
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