Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey (1826)

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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

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As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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

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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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As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

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A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

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Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

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A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

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Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: These are fearful odds.

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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

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He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.

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I repeat…that all power is a trust—that we are accountable for its exercise—that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

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The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.

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

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Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

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