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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Meditation is culture.
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"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.
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That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
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Books are the curse of the human race.
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A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
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Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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The canter is a cure for every evil.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
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Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
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A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.