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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
Politician
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London
England
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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
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Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
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I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.
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Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
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He was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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