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Benjamin Disraeli


British
December 21, 1804
Statesman
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In politics nothing is contemptible.


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Finality is not the language of politics.


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Duty cannot exist without faith.


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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.


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London is a roost for every bird.


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Tags: Every London Bird
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.


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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.


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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.


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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.


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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.


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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.


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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.


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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.


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Tags: Life Within Lie
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.


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Tags: Me Who Person
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.


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Tags: Things Must Done
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.


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Tags: Human Both Meet
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.


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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.


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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.


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Tags: Our Love First
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.


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Tags: Power People Only
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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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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Tags: You Your Own
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
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Tags: About Very Which
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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Tags: Best More Than
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
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Tags: God Away Takes