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Little things affect little minds.

By Benjamin Disraeli
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

By Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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That doctrine [of peace at any price] has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasion...

By Benjamin Disraeli
Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the People.

By Benjamin Disraeli
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace—but a peace I hope with honour.

By Benjamin Disraeli
Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

By Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Wisdom

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Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!

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Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

By Benjamin Disraeli
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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

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It is the lot of man to suffer.

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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Success

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

By Benjamin Disraeli
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

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In politics nothing is contemptible. Politics

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

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Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.

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A person's fate is their own temper.

By Benjamin Disraeli
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

By Benjamin Disraeli
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

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

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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

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News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.

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He has not a single redeeming defect.

By Benjamin Disraeli