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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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There is no education like adversity.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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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