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"Knowledge is the foundation of eloquence." -Benjamin Disreali

"Men of action, when eminently successful in early life, are generally boastful and full of themselves." -Benjamin Disraeli

"We are never so pleased as when we please others, and, in our gratified generosity, attribute to them the very results we have ourselves accomplished."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is born to observe, but if he falls into psychology he observes nothing, and then he is astonished that life has no charms for him, or that, never seizing the occasion, his career is a failure." -Benjamin Disraeli

"There seemed to me no achievement of which I was not capable, and of which I was not ambitious. In imagination I shook thrones and founded empires. I felt myself a being born to breathe in an atmosphere of revolution." -Benjamin Disraeli