Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe 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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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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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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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