You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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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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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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