Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 10

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• He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

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  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.550, Delphi Classics

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• The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

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  Adventure, Tree, Fruit

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

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• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

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  Men, Honor, Literature

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• Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

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  Principles, Politics, Trade

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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.

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  Happiness, Health, People

  Speech, 24 July 1877

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• Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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  Nature, Men, Sometimes

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.347, London : H. Colburn

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• At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

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  Peace, World, Capitalist

  Benjamin Disraeli (2009). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864”

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• An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

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  Style, Posterity

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• Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

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  Community, May, Dignity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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• The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

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  Grief, Blunders, Indulgence

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• In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

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  Philosophy, Engineering, Hands

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• "Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

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  Sorry

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• Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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  Funny, Success, Conceited

  Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn, Melvin George Wiebe (1997). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856”, p.265, University of Toronto Press

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• Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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  Fear, Intelligent, Speech

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• The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

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  Country, Political, Politics

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• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

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  Errors, Sincerity, Earnest

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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  Mother, Debt, Owing

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

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  Incense, Fool, Praise

  Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.205

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• Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

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  Country, Power, Tolerance

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• More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

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  Men, Nonsense, Treaties

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4147, Delphi Classics

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

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  Powerful, Opportunity, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3417, Delphi Classics

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• Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

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  Children, Rivers, Mind

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.833, Delphi Classics

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• A canter is the cure for all evil.

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  Animal, Evil, Pet

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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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  Events, Advantage, Prove

  Benjamin Disraeli (1859). “Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli”, p.65

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• A majority is always better than the best repartee.

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  Political, Majority, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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