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Benjamin Disraeli

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“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“We cannot learn men from books.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“In politics nothing is contemptible.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Finality is not the language of politics.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“There is no gambling like politics.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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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.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“I say that justice is truth in action.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”— Benjamin Disraeli