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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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I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.
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Religion is civilization, the highest.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
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The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Extreme views are never just something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
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Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
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