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Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few.
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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The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
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The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
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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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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea for ideas exist forever.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
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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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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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