There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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Little things affect little minds.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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