Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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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 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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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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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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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