Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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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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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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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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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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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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