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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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The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
Benjamin Disraeli
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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The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
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To a mother, a child is everything but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
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The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
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All my successes have been built on my failures.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
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There is no waste of time like making excuses.
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
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Never argue. In society nothing must be give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
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Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
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Life is too short to be little.
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I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
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The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
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Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
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