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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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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag but we ought not to be a tortoise.
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Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
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Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
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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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It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
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He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories above all, never tell long ones.
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People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
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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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A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
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The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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