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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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Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
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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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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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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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The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
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London is a modern Babylon.
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
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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 Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
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Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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We are taught words, not ideas.
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The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
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