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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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London
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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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Change is constant in a progressive country.
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Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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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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People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
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Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen learn to protect yourself.
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I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
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An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
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And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
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