You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIGrief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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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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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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There is moderation even in excess.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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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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