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It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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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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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Everyone likes flattery and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
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When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
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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.
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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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Never take anything for granted.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
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What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
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Sorry only counts for that which it cannot alter.
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Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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