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A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
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
Novelist
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London
England
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All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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.
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Her Majesty is not a subject.
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Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
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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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Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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