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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Every man should marry - and no woman
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Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
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There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Departure should be sudden.
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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 has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
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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