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

Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli
You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

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He was fresh and full of faith that "something would turn up."

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Progress to what and from where…The European talks of progress because by an ingenious application of some scientific acquirements he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.

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Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

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It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light...

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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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Nothing more completely represents a nation than a public building.

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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

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It [the revelation of chaos] is treated scientifically; everything is explained by geology and astronomy, and in that way. It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing can be so pretty! A cluster of vapour, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light,

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I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

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