Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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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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Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

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I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

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Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

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There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

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The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

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The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

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Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

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Nothing more completely represents a nation than a public building.

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The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

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One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

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The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: Adventures are to the adventurous.

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Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

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Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

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I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

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There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

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I could have brought you some primroses, but I do not like to mix violets with anything. "They say primroses make a capital salad," said Lord St. Jerome.

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In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

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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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What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

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The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

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Imagination is too often accompanied by somewhat irregular logic.

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Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

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There is no fallacy so flagrant as to suppose that the modern ages have the peculiar privilege of scientific discovery, or that they are distinguished as the epochs of the most illustrious inventions.

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Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

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Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

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The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

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There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

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