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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
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England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.
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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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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Sorry only counts for that which it cannot alter.
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Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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