The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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We moralize among ruins.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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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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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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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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