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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
Novelist
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London
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There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
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Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
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All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
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Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
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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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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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