You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Little things affect little minds.
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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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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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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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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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