Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELISuccess is the child of audacity.
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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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We moralize among ruins.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Justice is truth in action.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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