Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDamn your principles! Stick to your party.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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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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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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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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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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