Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIFrank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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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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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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Never take anything for granted.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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