Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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