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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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