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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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There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
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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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