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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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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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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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He who gains time gains everything.
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There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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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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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
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The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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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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The greatest of all evils is a weak government
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Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
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