The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is no education like adversity.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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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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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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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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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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