Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil (1845)

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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli
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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Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

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The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

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There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

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Everything in this world is calculation...

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'Frank and explicit'—that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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Pretending that people can be better off than they are is radicalism and nothing else.

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Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,—and that was wrong.

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To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

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Two nations, between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws...

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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

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Property has its duties as well as its rights.

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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

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I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.

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That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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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.

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I rather like bad wine... one gets so bored with good wine.

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