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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem, and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Benjamin Disraeli
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin Disraeli
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