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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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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London
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Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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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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One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
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