Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
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Date of Birth21 December 1804
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He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
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Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.
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He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice
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He traces the steam train always back to the kettle
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He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.