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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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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.
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Departure should be sudden.
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
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The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
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The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
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There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles who condense in one sentence the secrets of life who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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It shows you exactly how a star is formed nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.
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England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
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He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
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Female friendships are of rapid growth.
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