My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWithout tact you can learn nothing.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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We moralize among ruins.
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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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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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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Little things affect little minds.
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