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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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Meditation is culture.
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I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
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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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
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Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
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The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
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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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England does not love coalitions.
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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
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What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
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You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.
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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
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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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