There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDamn your principles! Stick to your party.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is no gambling like politics.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The 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.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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There is no education like adversity.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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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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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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