In politics nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIFear makes us feel our humanity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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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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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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