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#1

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#2

“A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#3

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#4

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: precious, time, truth

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#5

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth

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#6

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: philosophy

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#7

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: inspirational, music

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#8

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: criticism, critics

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#9

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#10

“The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: success

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#11

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: action, happiness

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#12

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#13

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: love

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#14

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#15

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#16

“The expected always happens”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: expectation, unexpected

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#17

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: love

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#18

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#19

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: fiction, on-fiction, romance

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#20

“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#21

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#22

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#23

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#24

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: metaphysics

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#25

“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: politics, statesmanship

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#26

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#27

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: time, wisdom

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#28

“Ignorance never settles a question.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#29

“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#30

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
― Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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