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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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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
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A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
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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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Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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There is no waste of time like making excuses.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
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