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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.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
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I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts
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We are taught words, not ideas.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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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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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
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The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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What is earnest is not always true on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
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A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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Quit the world, and the world forgets you.
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The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.
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It is the lot of man to suffer it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
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Female friendships are of rapid growth.
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