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There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
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It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
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The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
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I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
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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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Never take anything for granted.
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The affections are the children of ignorance when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
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Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
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A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
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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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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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