Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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