Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWithout tact you can learn nothing.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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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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