Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
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Date of Birth21 December 1804
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
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We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.
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To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works," and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works