Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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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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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Never complain and never explain.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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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 wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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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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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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