Tag: Benjamin Disraeli
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli
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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.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli