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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amiable destroys everyday human nerves
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
gratitude sensation unusual
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude
ignorance love magic
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
british-statesman change country
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
anybody fell pulled suppose
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
almost brought duke immortal include minister post quality seem success
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.