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Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
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Female friendships are of rapid growth.
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
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I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
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The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
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Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
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The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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Religion is civilization, the highest.
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There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
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The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
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Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
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All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
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