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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
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London
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1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
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Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
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The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
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The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
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The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
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The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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England does not love coalitions.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
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Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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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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I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
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The greatest of all evils is a weak government
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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