A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
BENJAMIN DISRAELISuccess is the child of audacity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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 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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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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