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• My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophical, Ideas, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn (1993). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851”, p.103, University of Toronto Press

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• I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Conservative, Constitution, Radical

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Gladstone

  "Are Britain's politicians losing the power of speech?" by Peter Hoskin, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2012.

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• The expected always happens

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Expected, Happens

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• Life is to short to be small.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life Is Short, Personality, Life Is

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• I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Marriage, Long

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• That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Enthusiasm, Heat

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Successful, Triumph, Alliances

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Courage, Intelligent, Political

  "Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 2: 1868-1880". Book by Gwendolen Cecil, 1921.

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• I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Without tact you can learn nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Tact, Inquirers

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Intelligent, Destiny

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• An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

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  Art, Artist, May

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.79

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• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Ignorance

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.

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• I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friendship, Beautiful, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.147

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• Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Mankind

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.12

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• Adventures are to the adventurous.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Adventure, Vacation, Adventurous

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Errors, Religion

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Military, Almost Done, Youth

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.88

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• There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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  Time, Waste, Eternity

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

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  Party, Believe, Government

  Speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in 'The Times' 4 April 1872

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• Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, Lord, Diplomacy

  'Hansard' 16 July 1878.

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• Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

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  Rights, Society, Fundamentals

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

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  Argument, Comprehension, Antagonist

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Benjamin Disraeli (1982). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837”

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• The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Distance, Dark

  The Young Duke bk. 2, ch. 5 (1831). The Oxford English Dictionary has this as its earliest citation for the term dark horse, and Disraeli is frequently considered to be the coiner. However, an earlier usage is in the Edinburgh Advertiser, 24 Sept. 1822: "What is termed an outside or a dark horse always tells well for heavy betters."

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