Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Travel teaches toleration.
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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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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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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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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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We moralize among ruins.
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