Benjamin Disraeli - Endymion (1880)

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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

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No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves... Language and religion do not make a race—there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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Men destined to the highest places should beware of badinage…An insular country subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

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The greatest opportunity that can be offered to an Englishman—a seat in the House of Commons.

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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.

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Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.

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"As for that," said Waldershare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "And pray, what is that?" inquired the prince. "Sensible men never tell."

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As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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I believe they went out, like all good things, with the Stuarts.

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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything.

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Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

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

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In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

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