The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDamn your principles! Stick to your party.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Never complain and never explain.
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We moralize among ruins.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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