It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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