British - Statesman | December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Duty cannot exist without faith.
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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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