Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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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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There is no education like adversity.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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