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 DISRAELIThe governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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There is no education like adversity.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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