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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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Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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All must respect those who respect themselves.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
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Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.
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Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.
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Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
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A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
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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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Everything in this world depends upon will.
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Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
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The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
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