The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIHow much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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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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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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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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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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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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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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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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