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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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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
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The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
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Religion is civilization, the highest.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts
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Change is constant in a progressive country.
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The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
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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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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
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The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
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Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
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Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
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When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous
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