British - Statesman | December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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London is a modern Babylon.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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That fatal drollery called a representative government.
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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