Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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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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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Never take anything for granted.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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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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