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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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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
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And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.
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Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
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The affections are the children of ignorance when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
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'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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England does not love coalitions.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
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If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
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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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The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
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Her Majesty is not a subject.
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Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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