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1804–1881 England
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The anniversary of his death on 19 April is known as Primrose Day.
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None are so interested in maintaining the institutions of the country as the working classes. The rich and the powerful will not find much difficulty under any circumstances in maintaining their rights, but the privileges of the people can only be defended and secured by popular institutions.
Letter to a working men's club (1867)
But, my Lord, how thunderstruck must be our visitor when he is told to recognise a Secretary of State in an infinitely small scarabæus;—yes, my Lord, when he learns, that you are the leader of the English House of Commons, our traveller may begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped—AN INSECT.
In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is, not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws, the traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines. The one is a national system; the other...is a philosophic system.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
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The more extensive an author's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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They that touch pitch will be defiled.
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